Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
The history of the mining and sale of uranium and radium ore in a single volume Presents the story of uranium and radium through biographical vignettes Explores uranium and radium in terms of chemistry, physics, geology, geography, occupational health, medical utilization, environmental safety and industrial history Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Roger F. Robison
Themen in »Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium«
Geology of Radium Geology of Uranium Joachimsthal Mining Radium Mining Uranium Polonium Radium Radium Factories Radium Therapy Radon Uranium Wismut mineral resources economic geology