03710nam 22008415 450 991029944760332120200701060905.03-319-11830-710.1007/978-3-319-11830-7(CKB)3710000000311587(EBL)1965245(OCoLC)897466429(SSID)ssj0001408078(PQKBManifestationID)11782359(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001408078(PQKBWorkID)11346175(PQKB)11650922(DE-He213)978-3-319-11830-7(MiAaPQ)EBC1965245(PPN)183149114(EXLCZ)99371000000031158720141201d2015 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMining and Selling Radium and Uranium /by Roger F. Robison1st ed. 2015.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2015.1 online resource (271 p.)Description based upon print version of record.3-319-11829-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Mineral resourcesEconomic geologyNatural disastersNuclear medicineMedicine HealthNatureEnvironmentMineral Resourceshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G38010Economic Geologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G17010Natural Hazardshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G32000Nuclear Medicinehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/H29048Popular Science in Medicine and Healthhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q14008Popular Science in Nature and Environmenthttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q16000Mineral 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.50055551553Robison Roger Fauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1063909BOOK9910299447603321Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium2535239UNINA