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Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

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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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Publisher

USA : ., 2015

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XV, 265

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-11829-1

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NONE

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Edition

1

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Environmental Sciences
Mineralogy

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Statement of Responsibility

Roger F. Robison

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Devi

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