Word: radiumator
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...latest in a long series of ups & downs for the Colorado Plateau. The deposits of uranium-bearing carnotite ores have long been known; Indians once painted themselves with brilliant reds and yellows extracted from the carnotite rock. It was first mined commercially 40 years ago for its radium content, and for a time the area turned out half the world's supply of radium. (The uranium in the waste tailings from the mines was thrown away.) When richer radium-bearing ores were found in the Belgian Congo, the mines closed. Later, the area became a major producer of vanadium...
...Police of Carteret, N.J., notified that four steel-enclosed radium pellets worth $200,000 had vanished from a flatcar at a local boiler works, wasted no time hunting down the criminals. Observing a kids' shack near by, they checked schools and churches, found that three boys had lifted the valuable pellets, thinking they were fishing sinkers. To the cops' relief, the boys had hidden the boodle under a sidewalk almost immediately, thus escaping possible lethal radiation burns...
...Northwest Territories is an all-weather highway over which truckloads of fresh and frozen trout and whitefish from Great Slave Lake are driven , daily on their way to Chicago and New York, as part of a $2,500,000 fishing industry. Gold at Dawson and Yellowknife, uranium at Port Radium, base metals at Mayo have all built up thriving settlements. Great lead-zinc-silver deposits, lately found at Pine Point, less than 60 miles from the Hay River road, may bring a new smelter city of 15,000 to the N.W.T. within a decade...
...with radioactive liquid or fitted with a solid, pinpoint source of radioactivity. Radioactive gold wire is built into hollow nylon sutures to be stitched into a tumor. For external radiation, frighteningly powerful amounts of atomic energy are being baked into little wafers of cobalt ("the poor man's radium...
...University of California complained that it lost its radioactivity too fast' Physicist Glenn Seaborg nodded, said-"I'll see what I can find." He found iodine-131 -Which is also believed to be the vital element in the H-bomb.*Thanks to the accident of prior discovery, radium has never been brought under similar control. Anyone can buy as much as he can afford and carry it home in his pocket. It might cost him $500,000 an ounce, but for a mere $3,000 he can get enough to burn through his pocket and flesh and well...