Uranium: Nuclear Friend Or Nuclear Foe
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On Monday August 6, 1945 the U.S. Bomber Enola Gay flew over the
Japanese city of Hiroshima. Seconds later a metallic projectile fell
towards its target. In a blinding flash the world felt the power of a new
age, the nuclear age.
The study of radiation that would eventually lead to these uranium
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Middle of paper
.... 650 miners working in
the mines had a life expectancy of 20 years after entering the mines.
It was two german doctors, Harting and Hesse, who brought this to
the public. The doctors found that 75 percent of the miner deaths were due
to lung cancer. But with their scientific knowledge the doctors could only
assume that the deaths were caused by the inhalation of arsenic. Later
studies between 1900 and 1940 found that the deaths were caused by
radiation in the mines.
The radiation the miners w ....
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