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Author	Robison, Roger F., author.
Title	Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium / by Roger F. Robison.
OCLC	978-3-319-11830-7
ISBN	9783319118307
ISBN/ISSN	10.1007/978-3-319-11830-7 doi
Publisher	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Description	XV, 265 pages 72 illustrations, 1 illustration in color. : online resource
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LC Subject heading/s	Geography.
	Geology, Economic.
	Mines and mineral resources.
	Geology.
	Nuclear medicine.
	Medicine.
	Life sciences.
Other Subject heading/s	Earth Sciences.
	Mineral Resources.
	Economic Geology.
	Natural Hazards.
	Nuclear Medicine.
	Popular Science in Medicine and Health.
	Popular Science in Nature and Environment.
Contents	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 -- Miners plague -- Cold war uranium blunders.
Summary	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.
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