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...stellar furnaces forge progressively heavier atoms out of lighter ones. They provided a number of pathways for the fusion reactions, including one in which a giant star eventually explodes in a super nova and unleashes forces powerful enough to create the heaviest known naturally occurring elements such as uranium. Fowler subsequently refined these ideas so he could predict exactly what ele ments would be found in a particular type of star. These predictions have been al most precisely matched by astronomical observations...
...Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...
Gaddafi's primary interest in Chad is the Aozou Strip, a 60-mile-wide band near Chad's northern border. Since 1973 Libya has occupied the area, which is believed to be rich in uranium and manganese. In June 1980, Goukouni, who was then President, signed a friendship treaty with Gaddafi, granting Libya the right to intervene militarily in Chad and laying plans for a merger of the two countries. Habré, who was then Defense Minister, took up arms against Goukouni in protest, but he was defeated in December 1980. Goukouni ruled for a year...
...stretches 60 miles from the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona up to the Utah border. Environmentalists, impressed by the region's spectacular scenery and rare wildlife, have wanted part of it declared a protected wilderness area. Developers, coveting the mineral deposits, among them perhaps the richest veins of uranium in the U.S., have been pressing for the area to be opened to mining...
...wilderness system, while another 673,000 acres will be returned to "multiple use" status. Both sides made substantial concessions. The environmentalists gave up claims to some of the most majestic sections of the Grand Wash Cliffs at the strip's western edge. Energy Fuels Corp., a uranium-and coal-mining concern, agreed to the costly process of extracting ore from the top rather than the bottom of the Kanab Creek Canyon's 250 million-year-old columnlike rock formations so as to minimize environmental damage. Says Pamela Hill of Energy Fuels: "It was like trading baseball cards...