Sunday, March 04, 2007

Dollars, Thalers and Uranium in Czech Republic

note refs to radon and radiocativity
see ref to last uranium mine in Europe in previous post --
Thaler has got to be a good place to start looking for more Uranium

refs from Wikipedia

Modern town

The first radon spa in the world was founded in Jáchymov in 1906.

After the Communist party took control of Czechoslovakia in 1948, a large prison camp was established in Jáchymov. Opponents of the new regime were forced to mine uranium ore under very harsh conditions: the average life expectancy in Jáchymov at this period was 42 years.

Uranium mining ceased in 1964. The radioactive thermal springs which rise in the former uranium mine workings are used under the supervision of doctors for the treatment of patients with nervous and rheumatic disorders.

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