HISTORY 224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Plutonium, Southern Russian Dialects, Acute Radiation Syndrome
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In the house that plutonium built: the history of plutonium, radiation and the communities that learned to love their bomb. In 1944, brigades of construction workers, soldiers and prisoners transformed. This one, cheliabinsk-40, was located in the dense, marshy forests of the russian urals. it took a village to produce the few kilograms of plutonium necessary for a nuclear bomb. People who lived in plutonium rich cities had local boosters counted up the number of. Contamination: plutonium is the most polluting aspect of the nuclear weapons industry and produces hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive waste that gets leaked, spilled or floated into the ground, water, and air. Initially, scientists saw the air, river and group as great sponges that would take up radioactive isotopes and spread them around so thin as to be sage everywhere to everyone. Scientists learned that the environment made a very selective and unpredictable sponge.
