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Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

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  • 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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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Reich Thalers and Pechblende

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 1-25
  3. Ionizing X-rays

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 27-55
  4. Radioactive Rocks

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 57-81
  5. European Radium Sales

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 83-107
  6. Colorado Uranium

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 109-131
  7. US Radium and Uranium Sales

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 133-160
  8. US Radium Oncology

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 161-185
  9. Congo and Arctic Uranium Sales

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 187-208
  10. Miner’s Plague

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 209-228
  11. Cold War Uranium Blunders

    • Roger F. Robison
    Pages 229-252
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 253-265

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bloomington, USA

    Roger F. Robison

About the author

Dr. Roger Robison began practicing as a medical oncologist in 1969. He trained in radiation oncology during 1978-80 at M.D. Anderson Hospital where radium therapy was utilized and where one of the first artificial radium (cobalt) machines was invented. Dr. Robison was selected by the international journal Acta Oncology to write the featured monograph for their centennial issue entitled The Race for Megavoltage. As Vice Chairman and then Chairman of the History Committee of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation & Oncology during 2001-2010, he had the opportunity to interview many of the pioneers in radium therapy while co-authoring the fifty year history of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology & Oncology (ASTRO).

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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