Overview
- 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
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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.
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Book Title: Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium
Authors: Roger F. Robison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11830-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-11829-1Published: 11 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38270-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-11830-7Published: 01 December 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 265
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mineral Resources, Economic Geology, Natural Hazards, Nuclear Medicine, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Popular Science in Nature and Environment