Uranium - Past and Future Challenges, Broder J. Merkel; Alireza Arab

Автор: Hecht, Gabrielle
Название: Being nuclear: Africans and the global uranium trade
ISBN: 0262526867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262526869
Издательство: MIT Press
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The hidden history of African uranium and what it means -- for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace -- to be "nuclear."

Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous "yellow cake from Niger," Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something -- a state, an object, an industry, a workplace -- to be "nuclear."

Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear -- a state that she calls "nuclearity" -- lie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between "developing nations" (often former colonies) and "nuclear powers" (often former colonizers). Hecht enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure. Could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? With this book, Hecht is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa. By doing so, she remakes our understanding of the nuclear age.

Название: Uranium geochemistry, mineralogy, geology, exploration and resources
ISBN: 940096062X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400960626
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: turning points that, in the course of a few years, have made this The uranium minerals that today are at the centre of worldwide metal an essential raw material.

Автор: Roger F. Robison
Название: Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium
ISBN: 3319118293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319118291
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: 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.