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Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

✍ Scribed by Roger F. Robison (auth.)

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Leaves
271
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Presented here is the story of the mining and sale of uranium and radium ore through biographical vignettes, chemistry, physics, geology, geography, occupational health, medical utilization, environmental safety and industrial history. Included are the people and places involved over the course of over 90 years of interconnected mining and sale of radium and uranium, finally ending in 1991 with the abandonment of radium paint and medical devices, Soviet nuclear parity, and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Reich Thalers and Pechblende....Pages 1-25
Ionizing X-rays....Pages 27-55
Radioactive Rocks....Pages 57-81
European Radium Sales....Pages 83-107
Colorado Uranium....Pages 109-131
US Radium and Uranium Sales....Pages 133-160
US Radium Oncology....Pages 161-185
Congo and Arctic Uranium Sales....Pages 187-208
Miner’s Plague....Pages 209-228
Cold War Uranium Blunders....Pages 229-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-265

✦ Subjects

Mineral Resources; Economic Geology; Natural Hazards; Nuclear Medicine; Popular Science in Medicine and Health; Popular Science in Nature and Environment

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