| Title |
Grant L. Shumway, Blanding, Utah, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Grant L. Shumway, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Shumway, Grant L. |
| Contributor |
Erick, Dorothy |
| Date |
1970-07-21 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Shumway, Grant L.--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Utah |
| Description |
Transcript (57 pages) of an interview by Dorothy Erick with Grant L. Shumway, on July 21, 1970. From tape number UR-143 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Dorothy Erick interviewed Shumway, a geologist, in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: Elk Ridge mine, the bust, nuclear power plants, pollution, international market, large corporations and small miners, health and safety, future of nuclear power, geology and prospecting, geiger counter, airplanes, Navajo regulations (57 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
57 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| 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/s6km1jv6 |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Uranium mines and mining |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053562 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6km1jv6 |
| Title |
Page 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053525 |
| OCR Text |
Show GRANT L. SHUMWAY #1 plants--they' re now considering fossil type plants instead, you see. When I was in San Onofre, the particular power company that operated that power plant, they have two other large power plants in that area and they supply a lot of the power for San Diego and the Los Angeles area. The fellow there told me that they have their other two power plants shut down to a certain extent and this one running full blast now, because they can produce electricity out of that cheaper than they can at the other plants, and of course that's money in their pockets, the cheaper they can produce it. Like I said, this one was the pioneer because I think they said $89,000,000 to build it but they' re presently building two more. They're two more of this other hundred that I'm talking about, and they plan on being able to build. They' re both going to be larger than this one and they plan on being able to build both of them for less than they did that one. DE: They're going back to a fossil type fuel. Isn't that like putting out a stage, or rather a drawbridge rather than a higher level? I mean it's slowing up or it's-- GS: Well of course, the power companies, they're in the business to make money, and housewives throughout the 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6km1jv6/1053525 |
