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From Calamity Mesa to Boyertown, PA: Risk, radon, and regulation in cold war America

机译：从灾难梅萨到宾夕法尼亚州博耶敦：冷战美国的风险，ra气和监管

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In the boom uranium mining industry in the American Southwest during the postwar 1940s and 1950s, the first casualty was occupational safety. That lapse engendered a harsh legacy: roughly fifty percent of the miners developed lung cancer over the next ten to twenty years, an outcome to which their excessive exposure to the decay products of radon gas emitted by the uranium ore may have contributed. Several decades later, in the mid-1980s, radon returned to the realm of public health and public policy when the high levels of radon gas found in private homes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey set off an indoor radon scare and compelled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set radon standards for residential environments. This paper employs these two radon exposure crises as a heuristic for examining the multiplicity of social, economic, political, and cultural concerns that are mobilized around a scientifically-informed regulatory decision.
机译：战后1940年代和1950年代美国西南部繁荣的铀矿开采业中，第一伤亡是职业安全。这一失误带来了严峻的后果：大约50％的矿工在未来10至20年内患上了肺癌，这一结果可能是他们过度暴露于铀矿石排放的ra气的腐烂产物所致。几十年后，在1980年代中期，当宾夕法尼亚州和新泽西州的私人住宅中发现的高含量gas气引发室内ra气恐慌并迫使环境保护署（Environmental Protection Agency）迫使ra回到了公共卫生和公共政策领域。 EPA）为居住环境设定ra标准。本文将这两种ra暴露危机作为一种启发式方法，用于研究围绕科学依据做出的监管决策而动员的社会，经济，政治和文化关注的多样性。

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