Vanessa Pierce, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Samantha Senda-Cook & Danielle Endres, 15 February 2008

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Title Vanessa Pierce, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Samantha Senda-Cook & Danielle Endres, 15 February 2008
Alternative Title No.460 Vanessa Pierce
Creator Pierce, Vanessa, 1980-
Contributor Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center; Senda-Cook, Samantha; Endres, Danielle
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2008-02-15
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Date Digital 2014-06-11
Spatial Coverage Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5417598/ ; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/
Subject Pierce, Vanessa, 1980- --Interviews; Environmentalists--Utah--Biography; Environmentalism--Utah--History; Radioactive waste disposal--Environmental aspects--Utah; Radioactive waste disposal--Political aspects--Utah
Keywords Grinnell College; Green Corps; HEAL Utah; Yucca Mountain
Description Transcript (29 pages) of interview(s) by Samantha Senda-Cook and Danielle Endres with Vanessa Pierce, on February 15, 2008. Includes two color photographs of Pierce
Abstract Vanessa Pierce (b. 1980) discusses growing up in Colorado, going to college at Grinnell College, and her work with Green Corps. She talks about her upbringing, role models and ethical influences, and her relationship with nuclear waste issues as the Executive Director of HEAL Utah. Other topics include Energy Solutions, the Yucca Mountain High Level Nuclear Waste site, and the proposed temporary nuclear waste site at Skull Valley, Utah. Interview is part of the Nuclear Technology Oral History Project. Interviewers: Samantha Senda-Cook and Danielle Endres
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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Is Part of Nuclear Technology in the American West Oral History Project
Scanning Technician Matt Wilkinson; Patrick Miller
Conversion Specifications Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display
ARK ark:/87278/s664173c
Topic Environmentalists; Environmentalism; Radioactive waste disposal--Environmental aspects; Radioactive waste disposal--Political aspects
Setname uum_elc
ID 787881
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s664173c