Word: radiumator
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...focuses mainly on Orgonon, the 280-acre Maine retreat where his father lived and worked. It was a beautiful though embattled fortress where the boy adoringly watched his father pitting the benevolent forces of orgone against evil forces that he called "dor." There were ominous times. "Daddy put a radium needle in the big accumulator in the lab and everyone got sick. The lab closed, the mice died. People went away." He recalls the day when FDA agents arrived with court orders to dismantle the accumulators. The elder Reich was cooperative but bitterly sarcastic. "I could feel the glow from...
Cleft Palates. By 1961, says the AEC, "form letters" were mailed to health officials warning that while the agency did not have regulatory jurisdiction over the tailings, their radium content could be hazardous; health officials, however, claim they never received the letters. In 1966 the Colorado state health department attached test film badges to several buildings in downtown Grand Junction; the badges promptly turned black from radioactivity. This led the state to pass legislation requiring contractors to get permits before using tailings in any project...
When he was 12, Cahalan was pitching for a Little League team that drew from an area with a 30-mile radius. But the rules forbid a radium in excess of ten miles. So the team was broken up, and since he had nothing else to do that summer, Cahalan started swimming...
...radiation produced by ten X rays. No one is quite sure about the ultimate damage to the chromosomes. The only treatment: intravenous injection of chemicals known as chelating agents (named for the chelae, or claws, of crabs and lobsters), which can draw out heavy elements like lead, radium or americium...
...Communist coup of 1948. Prague adopted the Soviet economic system, and the Soviets, in turn, drained Czechoslovakia, buying its production at dictated prices. One notable example is uranium. Czechoslovakia had the world's first producing uranium mine, and it supplied the pitchblende from which Mme. Curie isolated radium. During the 1950s, Russia bought most of Czechoslovakia's uranium for the cost of production, which was set artificially low because the mines were manned largely by unpaid political prisoners and located on state-owned land...