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Show CHAPTER II EARLY URANIUM ERAS AND PROSPECTORS Prior to the uranium boom that there three were the Following earlier of eras isolation of initiated the interest uranium in began and lasted until 1924. Marie Curie began late in 1953, in the the 1902, The discoveries increased uranium in the medical sciences. This Radium of interest ore. in Pierre the interest The used lasted 1942 s t ee l, an This in 1948 sion One untold, a of its.elf, began in atomic.age, source power of is was further Energy Commission uranium. purchasing the Four Corners left as the uranium that demand for uranium brought prospectors Arizona. era, use pro inflated public and set the stage stock boom. the Atomic program for use for only slightly, concerned with the The uranium increased demand penny was was fission, beginning expectations for,its for the and alloys. when nuclear duced which uranium 1924 to' 1941 from Vanium in during of continued Belgian Congo. era, and use until the discovery of Pitchblend in the second era area of these Charles from all This increased when announced action parts Utah, Colorado, of by the New domestic the Commis country Mexico, prospectors, whose story Augustus Steen. a He has cannot been to and be |
