A really good read about Uranium. The rest of the title: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World. The book looks into the first discovery of uranium in Czech mountains and to some uses back then. Into the work of the Curies and more discoveries of the rock in Africa. Then into the whole science of the atom bomb and the work that went into the development and finding enough uranium ore to make into the correct type of uranium for the bomb. After the movie Oppenheimer it was kind of fun to read about that but from a different perspective and also hear about the work being done in Washington state and Tennessee too. Then the time after WWII and into the whole making of power plants. The book was published in 2009 when there was thought to be a sort of renewal of nuclear power--it hasn't really taken off at least in the US. The manufacturing costs of the plants along with deeply held opposition are making it hard to open the new plants. The book talks about Yemen wanting a nuclear power plant and some people involved, sadly Yemen has been in a civil war that probably started soon after this book was published making that an impossible reality. A really good and interesting read that covered a lot of information.
There is 1 WL for this book but might hold out & see if one of my friends would be interested in reading first.
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