Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World

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The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield

Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order-whoever could master uranium could master the world.

Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle p...more

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Published March 5th 2009 by Viking Adult

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Apr 17, 2013 Sesana rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction, history, commodity-biography

Eminently readable, Uranium traces the history of the element from garbage rock to coveted weapons material. Zoellner made the (probably wise) decision to avoid giving too much space in his book to events widely covered elsewhere. So there's very little about Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, and even the Manhattan Project gets rather less attention than it might have, with Zoellner focusing more on the uranium than on the scientists. Because let's face it, if you're going to pick up a history of...more

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Apr 19, 2009 Lee at All Ears rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science, social-science, non-fiction

I just listened to Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner. Maybe you know it's radioactive, and maybe you also know the timeframe it went from being an unknown nuisance rock to something that would change the world forever. But do you know where it first came from on its race to its final resting place in Hiroshima? Zoellner does a great job of following its path through history from the first people who dug the mines and quietly shipped it to the secret processi...more

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May 04, 2013 Cindy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Uranium is a subject that makes the hearts of many citizens skip a beat. A cause of war, death, disease, and debate this chemical has had an enormous impact on the world. I talks about how when mining for silver uranium was cast off as a waste product, but noticing that those who were around it were becoming ill it got a bad reputation. The author visits the Shinkolobwe mine in the Congo without being stopped or questioned. Uranium was originally used is creating glass and paints. Zoellner talks...more

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Sep 02, 2012 Yeo rated it 4 of 5 stars

Many of us would have heard of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Perhaps the fabled name "Manhattan Project" would hold some vague but significant meaning for most people.

Yet what exactly is Uranium? Is Uranium purely a tool for man-made weapons of mass destruction? If it is so dangerous, why is it that mines containing Uranium have not exploded into themselves and created enormous craters?

Tom Zoellner sets out to answer such questions, putting things into perspective where they once were bu...more

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Mar 11, 2012 Chris Friend rated it 3 of 5 stars

A fascinating story about a rock we've all heard about but might not know the stories behind, Uranium digs deep (if you'll pardon the pun) into the history and influence of this one little metal.

Zoellner is thorough, tracing numerous paths of the element's influence over life, politics, and nations. That thoroughness does get wearying at times, when he includes the type of drink offered him by a resident, the color of clothing worn to a meeting, etc. Many details, like a near-miss bus hijacking...more

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Nov 18, 2011 Tricia Fields rated it 4 of 5 stars

When I make it to the library, or more frequently order off Amazon, I almost always read fiction for pleasure. Over the past several years the only nonfiction I’ve read has been research oriented. But, some of those books have been as unworldly as any fiction on the market. A great example – I just finished an excellent book by Tom Zoellner called Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World. Jon Steward, The Daily Show, called it “crazy fascinating,” which actually is a really accur...more When I make it to the library, or more frequently order off Amazon, I almost always read fiction for pleasure. Over the past several years the only nonfiction I’ve read has been research oriented. But, some of those books have been as unworldly as any fiction on the market. A great example – I just finished an excellent book by Tom Zoellner called Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World. Jon Steward, The Daily Show, called it “crazy fascinating,” which actually is a really accurate description of the book. Don’t let the title deter you – it’s a fascinating read.

I grew up in the seventies, in the midst of the Cold War era when we all still thought there was a real chance we’d get vaporized in a nuclear holocaust before graduating high school. The potential for good and evil, all packed into a mineral found inside the earth’s crust, fascinates me. Here’s how Zoellner puts it: “The earth came seeded with the means of its own destruction, a geological original sin.” Uranium has the power to end life on earth, and can also bring heat and power to millions – but at a cost. The contradictions are captivating, and that’s what led me to feature uranium in the mystery I’m currently writing.

It was Zoellner’s book that provided me the understanding I needed to write freely about the topic without having to stop and Google every other scene. But Zoellner’s book isn't just dry science. Instead, it’s a fascinating account of the bizarre history of uranium, from secret mines in the Congo all the way to the bombs that destroyed Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The original attempt by the government to cover up the devastation would be comical if it weren’t so tragic. Most amazing were his accounts of the scientists who unlocked the secrets inside the heaviest natural element on earth. Once they understood the instability of the atom, there were an amazing number of discoveries that led directly to the atomic bomb – and what a ride it was.

Zoellner helps the reader navigate the complex science necessary to understand how this misunderstood element still weighs so heavily on our future. He succeeds at illustrating the capacity for horror locked inside this rock without ever becoming melodramatic or using scare tactics. The facts do that just fine on their own.(less)

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Sep 25, 2011 Jen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: micro-history, science, random-non-fiction

There's no getting around that the more you hear the word "uranium" the weirder it sounds. By the end of this book. You hear it ... a lot.

This book tells the story of not only the nuclear age, but also the story of the stone that started it. Now we see uranium as this dangerous rock, but in the beginning it was seen as this annoying rock that miners found while looking for something valuable.

This book was exceedingly thorough, at times the facts were piled on so thick the reader might well worr...more

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Apr 12, 2011 Austin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: science

This book caught my eye because of the nuclear accident in Japan. It starts with the stories of the first physicists and chemists who posited that nuclear fusion would be possible in the 1930s. There's a fascinating episode in which Albert Einstein used his clout to finally get the possibility on the radar of the American Government. There's a concise history of the Manhattan Project, but mostly Zoellner focuses on Uranium itself. All of the ore for the first American atomic bombs was mined in C...more

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Nov 22, 2010 Danielle Parker rated it 4 of 5 stars

Book Review: Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World
Author: Tom Zoellner
Viking Penguin, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-670-02064-5
337 pages

If anyone doubts the power of the idea in science fiction, an anecdote from Tom Zoellner’s fascinating riff on everything uranium will settle the argument. H. G. Wells, considered (along with Jules Verne) one of the two great-grandfathers of the genre, wrote a massive antiwar tome about a fictionalized mineral called Carolinum.
His 1914 vintage mineral bore...more Book Review: Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World
Author: Tom Zoellner
Viking Penguin, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-670-02064-5
337 pages

If anyone doubts the power of the idea in science fiction, an anecdote from Tom Zoellner’s fascinating riff on everything uranium will settle the argument. H. G. Wells, considered (along with Jules Verne) one of the two great-grandfathers of the genre, wrote a massive antiwar tome about a fictionalized mineral called Carolinum.
His 1914 vintage mineral bore all the characteristics of the infamous ore. Wells was the one who invented the term atomic bomb. The hellish mineral turned world capitals into lakes of fire. Maybe Wells really did have a time machine. But perhaps not: his tale ends with world powers agreeing to lock up the infernal demon forever. We know that won’t happen.
More to the point, Wells’ fictional Carolinum was described as unstable and shedding “bits of itself”. Just like uranium, the heaviest known natural element (so far as this former computer science, not physics, major, knows).
Thus the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard was the first to realize, fresh from reading the Wells novel, and uneasy with the bad news from Hitler’s Germany, the full destructive potential of the unstable uranium and the true atomic bomb it might made.
Case rests. First we imagine it, then we invent it. Can Star Trek’s transporters be that far ahead of us? After all, Dr. Moreau’s chimeras are already here too.
The book can also scare the pants off you. Zoellner begins with a trip to the fabulous Congo (Zaire) mine, Shinkolobwe, which provided the material for the Hiroshima bomb. The mine’s officially closed, but in actual fact, still busily worked by local talent who sell the ore to the black market. A United Nations security force keeps an official presence on the site, but the author walked right in and viewed the obvious signs of busy activity without ever glimpsing any boys in (light) blue.
So away the ore ships. China’s apparently one of the major buyers, but the Middle East weighs in there too. Anonymous Lebanese buyers and radioactive materials are a confluence I don’t like to think about.
But no point in shouting wolf: the lamb’s already down the gullet. Following the same greased-by-corruption trails used by drug smugglers, the ingredients for a dirty bomb are certainly in the wrong hands already. Even the Mafia tried to sell Shinkolobwe’s ore to a Middle East buyer—who fortunately proved to be an Italian police officer.
Zoellner’s lively book mixes history, eyewitness journalism, and colorful anecdotes to cover uranium mines, the nuclear renaissance, the current spread of nuclear technology, and much more. Of particular interest is his discussion of how Israel got the bomb it still won’t admit to having. The dirty espionage aspects of that tale are discussed far more explicitly by Gordon Thomas in his almost-too-racy work, Gideon’s Spies: the Secret History of The Mossad, which I also recommend.
What can I say? Uranium makes a fascinating and scary story. Just let me know if you ever find that time machine H. G. Wells must have had.
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May 12, 2009 John rated it 5 of 5 stars

Covers the history of uranium and the countries that have mined it. How we got the uranium to make the first atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima. You have to mine tons (literally) of uranium to get enough enriched uranium (about the size of a football) to make a bomb. How a country like Pakistan got a nuclear bomb. How Iran is trying to get a bomb right now. Talks about the differences between how the USSR went about getting their uranium (forced labor camps; no regard for human life) and how...more

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Jun 08, 2009 Elaine Nelson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: environmentalism, history, non-fiction, politics, science, technology

Excellent wide-ranging history of uranium. Less about the science -- and C notes that some of the science is over-simplified -- than about its meaning historically, particularly over the last 100 years.

Sort of chronologically organized, but often jumps from the historical moment in question (Manhattan Project, 70s, etc.) to the present day, or loops back to earlier sections. I didn't get lost very often, though, so I'd consider the technique successful.

Lots of weird anecdotes, which is exactly...more

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Sep 14, 2009 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Now, I'm a social scientist by trade and education, so anything that has to do with atoms or nuclear weaponry has to be told to me in a captivating, easy-to-understand way. This book was recommended to me by a friend, another liberal arts-type person who found the subject matter to be interesting, relevant, and strangely captivating.

Zoellner has an obvious knack for story-telling, and makes even the headiest scientific and historical content seem important. Each chapter, each piece of informati...more

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Apr 13, 2013 Todd rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: cold-war, ebooks, history, politics, science, war, economics

Well done comprehensive overview of all things Uranium. Each chapter deals with a different aspect with the majority of them giving a history of a particular discovery and mining site (Congo, US West, Australia, Russia, Niger, Mongolia, etc.). It also follows the acquisition of both nuclear power and the bomb by most of the countries that now have it. Also gives the overview of details in most modern controversies and scandals like just how outrageous was the Bush administrations lie about Niger...more

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Jul 31, 2009 getAbstract rated it 5 of 5 stars

Reads like a gripping novel

This is a great story about a very special rock, uranium, which was formed by petrified foliage millions of years ago, and continues to breed a deadly form of energy. Tom Zoellner’s factual book reads like a gripping novel. He breathes vigorous life into a saga that could have been a dry political and geological tale. His beautifully crafted story puts uranium into its complex context as a key protagonist on the world stage. Zoellner’s reporting ranges from the Congo...more

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Apr 13, 2009 Andy rated it 4 of 5 stars

In the nineteen-forties, Manhattan Project geologists concluded that uranium was a rare element and that the U.S., controlling a large deposit in the Belgian Congo, had a strangle-hold on the world uranium supply. Well, it turns out that they were wrong. Uranium is actually forty times more abundant than silver, with deposits on nearly every continent and large, concentrated deposits in Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Namibia, Niger, Uzbekistan, the U.S., Ukraine, and China.

Tom Zoellner’s...more In the nineteen-forties, Manhattan Project geologists concluded that uranium was a rare element and that the U.S., controlling a large deposit in the Belgian Congo, had a strangle-hold on the world uranium supply. Well, it turns out that they were wrong. Uranium is actually forty times more abundant than silver, with deposits on nearly every continent and large, concentrated deposits in Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Namibia, Niger, Uzbekistan, the U.S., Ukraine, and China.

Tom Zoellner’s Uranium traces the history of uranium, its spectacular rise from the “bad-luck rock” dreaded by miners to become one of the most sought-after elements in history. One part nuclear tour guide, Uranium takes us to the uranium mine at Shinkolobwe, Congo (birthplace of Little Boy); the St. Joachimsthal in the Czech Republic; the Trinity site; the uranium-rich desert outside Moab, Utah; sacred Mount Brockman in northern Australia; Arlit, Niger; the Russia-Georgia border; the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia; among many other globe-trotting fieldtrips.

The history of uranium is inseparable from the history of nuclear weaponry and the threat of nuclear proliferation. Zoellner explores why uranium—or rather, HEU, the highly enriched form of uranium—is the fissile material of choice among nascent nuclear weapons programs. To the natural abundance of uranium ore, add the large stores of processed uranium left over from the post-war uranium boom and the economics of uranium smuggling, and as Zoellner shows, there’s little hope of controlling the world uranium supply. Perhaps, the best we can hope for is to stop the spread of technology to enrich uranium to bomb-grade concentrations, but Zoellner’s survey of current events (A.Q. Khan, North Korea, Iran) demonstrates that even these basic controls are falling through, again and again.

Uranium is breezy, magazine-style writing, extended to a book-length work. Zoellner’s adventures in nuclear tourism make for particularly fascinating reading. This book is definitely a page-turner, but don’t expect any revelations from its review of well-trod events in nuclear history, the cursory analysis of current events, or the elementary nuclear science.
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Jun 16, 2012 Eugene Miya rated it 2 of 5 stars

I can't believe the American Geophysical Union (AGU) rated this as highly as they did. This books lacks the continuity and personal writing style of Oliver Sacks and his Uncle Tungsten or Jeremy Bernstein's 49 (Plutonium).

Zoellner writes in an annoying style which he criticizes another writer from the 40s and 50. He then has a chapter attempting the split time-line technique. Nice attempt, but it just doesn't quite do it for me.

I'm not expecting a metallurgy text, but I was hoping for something...more

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Jul 05, 2010 Converse rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history, physics, politics, warfare, technology, geology

The author starts his tour of the world by inspecting the source in the Congo form whence the uranium for the Hiroshima Bomb was dug, and then goes on to consider other sources of the stuff; from the Czech Republic for the Curies and for Stalin's bomb; from East Germany also for Stalin, from Niger for France, from Australia for Britain, from New Mexico for the US. Ironically, the very deadliness of the alternative bomb making material, plutonium, means that its probably less of a problem than ur...more

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Apr 11, 2013 Camille Mccarthy rated it 3 of 5 stars

I liked the premise of this book very much- it tried to look at Uranium's affect on the world from a global point of view, going through its discovery, the various periods of history which involved it, its benefits to humanity and its disastrous capabilities. This was a very broad scope and I felt at times that the book could have used more editing since the author often gets sidetracked by little tidbits of information he's found along the way and includes them at times when he probably should...more

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Sep 01, 2012 Ralph D'andrea rated it 4 of 5 stars

Excellent book. I'm a retired uranium geologist who worked for the contractor at a Department of Energy office during the second uranium boom (1970s). I was one of those old hands who got drafted back to work for a junior exploration company during the mini-boom of 2007-2008. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the state of the art in uranium exploration had changed little in 30 years, something this book documented. The book helped fill in the missing years for me and also chronicled the pu...more

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Nov 22, 2009 Kiffin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Everytime my older brother discuss anything regarding the Nuclear Plant he works at or American policy, this book provided an excellent reference regarding Uranium and the
chemical reactions involved with this mineral. I was always under the impression that
the naked form of Uranium alone is highly radioactive, when in actuality it's probably milder than other minerals we're usually exposed to. There was a paragraph in the book discussing how kids found a piece of uranium rock stolen from Los Alam...more

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Nov 21, 2012 Rishi Garg rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: energy

Comprehensive and engaging. Mr. Zoellner takes a historical approach to explaining the role of uranium in our world and pulls it off well. I expected to hear a but more about 3-mile island and Chernobyl and perhaps an epilogue footnote about Fukashima but that may have happened after its publication. The book leaves the reader without a great deal of hope concerning containment of uranium stocks globally, which seems unfortunately too true. One line that concerned me, and was unnecessary was Mr....more

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Apr 06, 2012 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history-general, ebook

I found this book to be enlightening - even after spending 20 years in the nuclear power industry as an engineer. I was surprised to read of the many misconceptions related to Uranium prior to it becoming better understood through study. I was not surprised to see that, in the race for Uranium's "power", man's corrupt nature was on display - as it is to this day when it comes to extracting wealth from holes in the ground. Those at the bottom continue to pay the larger price.
Overall I enjoyed rea...more

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Jun 11, 2010 Evan rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was hoping for a scientific history of the element and its development into energy and weaponry. Some of this was included in the first chapters. Most of the rest of URANIUM was focused on overview of the social and political history of the rock in the 20th century. I found it interesting nonetheless. Especially eye-opening were the descriptions of conditions in Russian owned mines in the post WW2 arms race and the story of the Pakistani engineer who stole plans from the dutch plant he was emp...more

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May 11, 2013 Eddy Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: arts-and-historical

The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield

Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order-whoever could master uranium could master the world.

Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to believe that civilization would end with apocalypse. Slave labor camps in...more

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Jun 15, 2012 Angus Mcfarlane rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, history, science

This was not all I had hoped it would be, but was informative enough to live up to the cover-claim that uranium has been the most influential element of the last century. The book gives plenty of detail about how human history has been impacted by uranium (along with plenty of side detail that has little to do with anything except journalistic 'personal interest'). From the discovery of radioactivity and the associated fears and new understanding of the atom that resulted, through invention of n...more

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Mar 18, 2012 Peter Jana rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history, science

The narrative is a bit fragmented and the middle part lags with too many uranium miner stories that all seem to resemble one another, but overall this is an informative and entertaining read. The first couple chapters provide the most accessible explanation of the science behind nuclear power that I know of, along with interesting anecdotes, trivia, and history. H.G. Wells, for example, provided a fictional account of an element that works like uranium, before it was discovered, and was the firs...more The narrative is a bit fragmented and the middle part lags with too many uranium miner stories that all seem to resemble one another, but overall this is an informative and entertaining read. The first couple chapters provide the most accessible explanation of the science behind nuclear power that I know of, along with interesting anecdotes, trivia, and history. H.G. Wells, for example, provided a fictional account of an element that works like uranium, before it was discovered, and was the first to coin the term “atomic bomb.” The nuclear scientist Leo Szilard was later compelled to keep his knowledge of fission secret by going to the British government instead of making it public, because of his reading of Wells.

Uranium has 92 protons which makes it the heaviest of the natural elements. It is therefore constantly collapsing under its own weight. This causes molecules to shred or cast off from the atom and become radioactive. This heaviness is what makes uranium an unstable element suitable for a nuclear explosion. .7 percent of a uranium molecule is made up of an especially unstable atom with three fewer neutrons than normal. It’s called U-235 and it needs to be distilled from uranium for use in nuclear fission. An atomic explosion is caused by fission: splitting of a U-235 atom by shooting a neutron into the nucleus causes an exponential chain reaction of atomic explosions.

One of the more interesting and unexpected topics in the last chapter is the idea of a nuclear monument for Yucca Mountain, Nevada. When Yucca Mountain was being considered to use as a national nuclear dumping ground, a team that included a science-fiction writer, anthropologists, and scientists was assembled to create a universal warning monument to future peoples - including extra terrestrials.

Quotes: "Is it right to probe so deeply into nature's secrets." Pierre Currie on the discovery of radioactivity (23).

"There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up?"William Faulkner's Noble prize address, 1950 (98).
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Nov 21, 2010 David rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to David by: From New Scientist magazine 21/27 Mar 09

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I listened to this book as an Audible download. I enjoyed listening to it while I drove, took public transportation, and exercised. A cranky complaint I have about this book (and many others) is that the reader (apparently a native of North America), when compelled to read a quotation, feels that it is necessary to assume an accent that is associated with the writer's native region. The result sounds like the list below:

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Jul 04, 2009 Grumpus rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, science, biography

This is basically the biography of Uranium. The history of how it was discovered and evolved to what it is today was a great read, especially considering the time we're in with everyone trying to get the bomb.

This powerful quote from the book's introduction sums it all up, " From dust to dust, the Earth came seeded with the means of it's own destruction--a geological original sin. "

The news is always talking about if terrorists ever got nuclear weapons how easy it would be to use them. After re...more

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Jun 09, 2010 Kristiana rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, at-work, non-fiction

Uranium
(or why some things should stay in the ground)
This nonfiction book takes a look at Uranium and its history in the world.
It is an interesting book, it is told through a completely linear timeline starting at its discovery and ending just a few years ago and its place on the world market.

The book looks not only at the affect radiation exposure has had on people but also the affect Uranium mining has had in the countries it is and was mined in.
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Apr 13, 2010 Tee Jay rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

I enjoyed this book. A lot of the back story on uranium was covered and so I now have a better understanding of the here and now in terms of all things nuclear. I also enjoyed the figurative and metaphorical language that Tom Zoellner, the author, employs to make the narrative come alive. It’s apocalyptic, but also scientific: the language is refreshing and it works, bringing this radioactive rock to life in a way that has not been attempted before.

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