A review by heidihaverkamp
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen

2.0

I loved hearing Iversen interviewed on NPR, and while parts of her book were gripping - growing up in the late 60s and seventies, her parents' struggles, and the way hippies, nuns, and blue collar folks shared in activism against the nuclear industry, I got bogged down in so much mechanics of the poorly-run plant and nuclear waste. Still, this book made me grateful for all that's been done to make nuclear energy safer (?). Also makes me nervous about other plants and government regulations that aren't really protecting vulnerable people (fracking? waste dumps? oil industry?).