Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 02, 2014
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9783319118291
Description: 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.