Uranium Seekers
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Uranium Seekers
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Author : Craig Evan Royce
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012
Uranium Seekers written by Craig Evan Royce and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Uranium miners categories.
The, Uranium Seekers, saga began in 1976 when world-famous Hollywood, California photographer, Martin, was contracted to come to Utah and begin documenting, paying photographic tribute to, uranium miners, native Americans, and the Vanadium King uranium and vanadium mines on Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah. The essence of the project was to pay tribute to the persons who traversed Zane Grey's and John Ford's great western expanse in search of uranium ore, one rock at a time, from before Madame Curies trips to the, then, present, and to remind the world's public that uranium was, and still is, used to kill, not humanity, rather cancer. I harbored the hope that by going back to the first uranium rocks the nuclear industry would re-evaluate the physical structure of nuclear reactors, one cubic yard at a time. Nuclear reactors, when built, witness Fukushima Daiichi, are still being created with too much haste. Like the uranium miners themselves, it's the hands of the humanity who cast the cement forms in which the reactors rest which determines safety. I also, rather naively, hoped when uranium's harmonous utilization was embraced its destructive military reality, throughout the world, would melt. Even with the support of the fine Beverly Hills, California literary agent, Clyde M. Vandeburg of Vandeburg-Linkletter Associates who represented Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and many others at the time, the national and international events at Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl put Uranium Seekers and Martins great photographs to bed for decades. However, recently I learned the Utah Historical Quarterly Unpublished Manuscripts from the Department of Community and Culture at the Utah State Archives had harbored some of the manuscript material for decades and the recent events at Fukushima Daiichi made uranium part of the international conversation once again, I decided to dust off Martin's work and snatches of the original material for Uranium Seekers.
Prospecting For Uranium
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Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Prospecting For Uranium written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.
Uranium Frenzy
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Author : Raye Ringholz
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2020-10-05
Uranium Frenzy written by Raye Ringholz and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-05 with History categories.
A history of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s need for uranium ore in the 1950s, the frenzied search, and the aftermath. Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, UraniumFrenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated by the U.S. government’s need for uranium to fuel its growing atomic weapons program, stimulated by Charlie Steen’s lucrative Mi Vida strike in 1952, manned by rookie prospectors from all walks of life, and driven to a fever pitch by penny stock promotions, the boom created a colorful era in the Four Corners region and Salt Lake City (where the stock frenzy was centered) but ultimately went bust. The thrill of those exciting times and the good fortune of some of the miners were countered by the darker aspects of uranium and its uses. Miners were not well informed regarding the dangers of radioactive decay products. Neither the government nor anyone else expended much effort educating them or protecting their health and safety. The effects of exposure to radiation in poorly ventilated mines appeared over time. The uranium boom is only part of the larger story of atomic weapons testing and its impact in the western United States. Nuclear explosions at the Nevada Test Site not only spurred uranium mining, they also had a disastrous impact on many Americans: downwinders in the eastward path of radiation clouds, military observers and guinea pigs in exposed positions, and Navajo and other uranium mill workers all became victims, as deaths from cancer and other radiation-caused diseases reached much higher than normal rates among them. Tons of radioactive waste left by mines, mills, and the nuclear industry and how to dispose of them are other nagging legacies of the nuclear era. Recent decades have brought multiple attempts by victims to obtain compensation from the federal government and other legal battles over disposal of nuclear waste. When courts refused to grant relief to downwinders and others, Congress eventually interceded and legislated compensation for a limited number of victims able to meet strict criteria, but did not adequately fund the program. Recently, Congress attempted to fix this shortfall, but in the meantime many downwinders and others holding compensation IOUs had died. Congressional and other efforts to dispose of waste have lately focused on Nevada and Utah, two states all too familiar with nuclear issues and reluctant to take on further radioactive burdens. “In a perceptive and touching narrative, Ringholz (The Wilderness Handbook) recalls that the Federal government in the early 1950s subsidized uranium mining for the coming atomic age. . . . Ringholz intrigues the reader with an expert blending of science, adventure, industry mania, finance, human triumph and despair and shameful official neglect.” —Publishers Weekly “The frenzied search for a reliable domestic source of uranium ore needed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in the 1950s is the subject of Ringholz's breezy narrative, which is populated with colorful characters. . . . This is good popular reading for general collections in public libraries.” —Library Journal
Uranium
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Author : Tom Zoellner
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-03-05
Uranium written by Tom Zoellner and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-05 with Science categories.
The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order-whoever could master uranium could master the world. Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to believe that civilization would end with apocalypse. Slave labor camps in Africa and Eastern Europe were built around mine shafts and America would knowingly send more than six hundred uranium miners to their graves in the name of national security. Fortunes have been made from this yellow dirt; massive energy grids have been run from it. Fear of it panicked the American people into supporting a questionable war with Iraq and its specter threatens to create another conflict in Iran. Now, some are hoping it can help avoid a global warming catastrophe. In Uranium, Tom Zoellner takes readers around the globe in this intriguing look at the mineral that can sustain life or destroy it.
Prospecting And Exploring For Radioactive Minerals
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Author : United States. Bureau of Mines. Mineral Resource Evaluation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Prospecting And Exploring For Radioactive Minerals written by United States. Bureau of Mines. Mineral Resource Evaluation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Uranium categories.
Search For Uranium Deposits
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Author : V. G. Melkov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Search For Uranium Deposits written by V. G. Melkov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Prospecting categories.
Facts Concerning Uranium Exploration And Production
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Author : John Edward Crawford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Facts Concerning Uranium Exploration And Production written by John Edward Crawford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Uranium categories.
Contributions To The Geology Of Uranium And Thorium
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Contributions To The Geology Of Uranium And Thorium written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Thorium categories.
Minnesota S Geology
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Author : Richard W. Ojakangas
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1982
Minnesota S Geology written by Richard W. Ojakangas and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Science categories.
Have you ever wondered how the Mississippi River was formed? Or why shark teeth have been found in the Iron Range of the Upper Midwest? Towering mountain ranges, explosive volcanoes, expansive glaciers, and long-extinct forms of both land and sea life were an important part of Minnesota's ancient history. Today the evidence of this remarkable heritage is revealed in the state's rocky outcroppings, stony soils, and thousands of lakes.
Popular Science
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954-08
Popular Science written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954-08 with categories.
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.