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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817904503321

Autore

Bothwell Robert

Titolo

Eldorado : Canada's national uranium company / / Robert Bothwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1984

©1984

ISBN

1-282-01192-8

9786612011924

1-4426-7433-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

338.7/6223492/0971

Soggetti

Uranium industry - Canada - History

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Prologue""; ""1 The Canadian Shield""; ""2 Northern Lights""; ""Interlude: The Powers of the Atom""; ""3 From Radium to Uranium""; ""4 Private into Public""; ""Interlude: War into Cold War""; ""5 The Shadow of War""; ""6 Mines and Money""; ""Interlude: Searching for Security""; ""7 Stoking a Boom: The Search for a Just Price""; ""8 Beaverlodge and the Boom""; ""9 Beaverlodge and the Boom: II""; ""10 Getting There Is Half the Fun""; ""Interlude: Atoms for Peace""; ""11 The Politics of Peace""; ""12 Too Little, Too Soon""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""

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Sommario/riassunto

History of the Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. whose mine at Port Radium, NWT became famous first for its radium and later its uranium content.