Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium / / by Roger F. Robison

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299447603321
• Autore: Robison Roger F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-11830-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 500; 55; 551; 553
• Soggetti: Mineral resources; Economic geology; Natural disasters; Nuclear medicine; Medicine ; Health; Nature; Environment; Mineral Resources; Economic Geology; Natural Hazards; Nuclear Medicine; Popular Science in Medicine and Health; Popular Science in Nature and Environment
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reich Thalers & Pechblende -- Ionizing x-rays -- Radioactive rocks -- European radium sales -- Colorado uranium -- United States radium & uranium sales -- United States radium oncology -- Congo & Arctic uranium sales -- Miner’s plague -- Cold war uranium blunders.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.