Full Body Burden is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman, Kristen Iversen, growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." It's the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of...

Illustrated, clear discussion of risk factors to human health and the environment from the Rocky Flats nuclear plant.

Discusses contamination of surface water during operations of the nuclear weapons plant; includes illustrations.

Regular methods of measuring plutonium discharges are useless when releases occur directly to the atmosphere from outdoor activities such as spills or open burning. It is essential to make estimates of the quanities of plutonium released in these situations.