Ranger Uranium Mine

He read books at the library about the elements Uranium and Hydrogen. They were used in the Curies discovery. David also got different jobs. His father did not like him trying out different jobs. The jobs he enrolled in were as follows; washing dishes and silverware at a hot dog restaurant, he put groceries…

how little uranium they need. With the new plants being built they have added safety measures both internal and external so that if something happens that there won’t be leaks of radiation. If something does go bad in a nuclear plant it is nothing like how it is portrayed in the media, these facilities couldn’t possible explode like a bomb. Nuclear waste at the moment is being stored underground to live out its half-life, but currently scientists are finding new ways to use the uranium…

Leona Woods Marshall who later came to be known as Leona Woods Marshall Libby was an American physicist. She was born on August 9, 1919 in La Grange, Illinois. Her studies culminated with the achievement of a doctoral degree in Molecular Spectroscopy from the University of Chicago after which she was recruited into the famous Enrico Fermi’s team to work on the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project was a research and development undertaking during the Second World War that produced the first…

Bianca Gomez Mr. Lewis Honors Chemistry 17 November 2017 Radon-Engineer Introduction: Radon is a colorless/odorless gas that comes from the radioactive decay of Uranium. Radon is commonly found in soil and is usually exposed to human beings through ingestion and inhalation. Most of Radon exposure is seen in many homes that are located in places where the soil beneath it contains a high concentration of it. Radon has been seen more often through sicknesses of people who are exposed to it, for…

leading to a lower life expectancy. Risks associated with coal mining go beyond just health and environment issues, it changes the geography of a mining area. One method of mining consists of taking the tops of the mountains off to get to shallow coal mines above ground, if this continues mountains will go from being pointed to…

The husband and wife team of Pierre and Marie Curie became interested in Becquerel’s discovery (The Discovery of Radioactivity). While experimenting with their own uranium-containing ore, they came up with the term "radioactivity" to describe the spontaneous emissions that they studied (The Discovery of Radioactivity). That word helped shape how we view the world forever. Radiation became the newest scientific find…

The transition into the atomic age began in the early 1900s, when scientists began researching the atom. In 1938 they discovered something called fission, the process of splitting an atom. Due to the second world war breaking out the research of atoms eventually turned to the research of weapons. A few of the leading countries in the race for an atomic weapon were Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union. After several years of research the U.S. developed and tested the first atomic bomb…

Have you ever been watching T.V. and just wondered where the energy that was powering the television was coming from, or how it was made? Well that power source is called nuclear power and many people do not think about nuclear power, or just not pay any attention to nuclear power, but nuclear power is one of the most useful thing to have been discovered. It powers so much. Without nuclear power you would not have electricity to charge Iphones and laptops. With nuclear power we do so much with…

Nuclear energy yields multiple uses. Obviously, it can be used for destruction and warfare in the form of a bomb. However, it is also used for technological advancements in agriculture and food, power and electricity, medical treatment, and so on. Of late, controversy has erupted over the decade plus long debate of the nuclear aptitudes and capacities of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The recent hopes of multiple countries have been to deal with this matter by achieving what is known as the Joint…

Nuclear energy complies with the Clean Air Act of 1970, meaning it does not increase the amount of pollution released into the environment (Nuclear Energy Institute, 2015). However, Uranium mining is very similarly to regular mining, which requires fuel and releases carbon emissions, and the construction of a Nuclear Power Plant is the same as every other factory or industrial building, producing a lot of carbon emissions (World Nuclear…