Oh, for crying out loud. Damn English majors.
Look, it's uranium-bearing ore. It's a rock. One you could pick up off the ground all over the southwest. Bunch of it at the headwaters of the Arkansas River, near Leadville, CO. (In fact, it's associated with lead ores in general.) It's got 238U in it because that's 99+ percent of all uranium.
Cripes, your granite countertops have uranium in them, granite often has U in the range of thousands of parts per million.
As to the effects of being raised by "the kind of nerds who would give their kid an Atomic Energy Lab" --- well, I got one, and I've got a bunch of scholarly publications, a couple patents, a comfortable six-figure salary, and I know what "uranium bearing ore" means.
Oh, for crying out loud. Damn English majors.
Look, it's uranium-bearing ore. It's a rock. One you could pick up off the ground all over the southwest. Bunch of it at the headwaters of the Arkansas River, near Leadville, CO. (In fact, it's associated with lead ores in general.) It's got 238U in it because that's 99+ percent of all uranium.
Cripes, your granite countertops have uranium in them, granite often has U in the range of thousands of parts per million.
As to the effects of being raised by "the kind of nerds who would give their kid an Atomic Energy Lab" --- well, I got one, and I've got a bunch of scholarly publications, a couple patents, a comfortable six-figure salary, and I know what "uranium bearing ore" means.