Philosophy
What they were after...uranium ore.
What the government provided.
- Chic Young's Dagwood Bumstead Does Some Science
"When Dagwood Bumstead Split the Atom" by Esther Inglis-Arkell May 19th, 2012 io9 It's not often that Chic Young, the newspaper cartoonist responsible for the exploits of Blondie's hapless husband, and General Leslie Groves, the military man...
- Deceased--jacob Bigeleisen
Jacob Bigeleisen May 2nd, 1919 to August 7th, 2010 "Jacob Bigeleisen, Isotope Chemist on Manhattan Project, Dies at 91" by Kenneth Chang August 30th, 2010 The New York Times Jacob Bigeleisen, a chemist who worked on the development of the atomic bomb...
- "uranium..."--book Reviews
"Uranium" From atomic bombs to cellphones, a history of uranium’s rise by Steve Weinberg March 5th, 2009 CSMonitor.com Books about the making of atomic weaponry proliferate, as do the deadly bombs. Probably every reader of books about the nuclear...
- Canadian November 20th Meteorite
University of Calgary graduate student Ellen Milley poses with a fragment of a meteorite in a small pond near Lloydminster, Sask., Canada Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Scientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before...
- Thorium For Reactors?
Shippingport nuclear power plant The first large-scale nuclear powerplant in the world began operating in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, on December 2, 1957--exactly 15 years after Enrico Fermi demonstrated the first sustained nuclear reaction. The Duquesne...
Philosophy
Almost a ghost town...Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada
What they were after...uranium ore.
What the government provided.
A governmental project to accommodate uranium miners and now nearly 20 years after the mines closed it's on its way to a curiosity...and a ghost town.
Uranium City, Saskatchewan [Wikipedia]
Uranium City, Saskatchewan [Wikipedia]
- Chic Young's Dagwood Bumstead Does Some Science
"When Dagwood Bumstead Split the Atom" by Esther Inglis-Arkell May 19th, 2012 io9 It's not often that Chic Young, the newspaper cartoonist responsible for the exploits of Blondie's hapless husband, and General Leslie Groves, the military man...
- Deceased--jacob Bigeleisen
Jacob Bigeleisen May 2nd, 1919 to August 7th, 2010 "Jacob Bigeleisen, Isotope Chemist on Manhattan Project, Dies at 91" by Kenneth Chang August 30th, 2010 The New York Times Jacob Bigeleisen, a chemist who worked on the development of the atomic bomb...
- "uranium..."--book Reviews
"Uranium" From atomic bombs to cellphones, a history of uranium’s rise by Steve Weinberg March 5th, 2009 CSMonitor.com Books about the making of atomic weaponry proliferate, as do the deadly bombs. Probably every reader of books about the nuclear...
- Canadian November 20th Meteorite
University of Calgary graduate student Ellen Milley poses with a fragment of a meteorite in a small pond near Lloydminster, Sask., Canada Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Scientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before...
- Thorium For Reactors?
Shippingport nuclear power plant The first large-scale nuclear powerplant in the world began operating in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, on December 2, 1957--exactly 15 years after Enrico Fermi demonstrated the first sustained nuclear reaction. The Duquesne...