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Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

Roger F. Robison (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XV, 265 Seiten

2016 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-38270-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Dr. Roger Robison began practicing as a medical oncologist in 1969. He trained in radiation oncology during 1978-80 at M.D. Anderson Hospital where radium therapy was utilized and where one of the first artificial radium (cobalt) machines was invented. Dr. Robison was selected by the international journal Acta Oncology to write the featured monograph for their centennial issue entitled The Race for Megavoltage. As Vice Chairman and then Chairman of the History Committee of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation & Oncology during 2001-2010, he had the opportunity to interview many of the pioneers in radium therapy while co-authoring the fifty year history of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology & Oncology (ASTRO).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2016
Zusatzinfo	XV, 265 p. 72 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
Schlagworte	Earth and Environmental Science • Economic geology • Geology of Radium • Geology of Uranium • Joachimsthal • Mineralogy and gems • Mineral Resources • Mining Radium • Mining Uranium • natural disasters • Natural Hazards • Nature and the natural world: general interest • Nuclear Medicine • Polonium • Popular medicine and health • Popular Science in Medicine and Health • Popular Science in Nature and Environment • Radium • Radium Factories • Radium Therapy • Radon • Uranium • Wismut
ISBN-10	3-319-38270-5 / 3319382705
ISBN-13	978-3-319-38270-8 / 9783319382708
Zustand	Neuware