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Can non-Hodgkins lymphoma be caused by exposure to uranium while working in uranium mines?
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∙ 13y ago
Very probable, any relation beetween non-Hodgkins lymphoma and uranium workers.
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∙ 13y ago
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What are the risks linked with working with uranium?
Uranium is radioactive, direct exposure can lead to cancer as well as other birth defects.
Does Turkmenistan produce Uranium?
Now Turkmenistan has no uranium working mines.
Where is uranium found in Tamil Nadu?
Tamil Nadu hasn't working uranium mines.
Does Turkmenistan have proven resource of uranium?
Now Turkmenistan has no uranium working mines; only prospections.
What are the risk of working with uranium?
The principal risk is the inhalation of radon and uranium fine powders.These can cause lung cancers.
Does uranium cause an air pollution?
Yes, uranium mining and uranium industry can cause air pollution with uranium aerosols; also the decay chain products radium and radon (gas) are dangerous. Severe precautions were taken when working with uranium.
What did becquerel realize when working with uranium?
Becquerel observed accidentally that uranium emit radiations that strongly impress a photographic plate.
What is the danger of using uranium?
Working without care uranium may be a pollutant for soils and waters.These disadvantages can be avoided today.
The physicist Henri bacquerel discovered radioactivity while working with a sample of?
uranium
Is uranium found in the atmosphere?
Uranium can be detected in the atmosphere near uranium plants and mines. Working with care the concentration is extremely low and without significance.But if the sample is sufficiently great any element can be detected in any atmosphere.
Is uranium mining hazardous to the surrounding community?
Disadvantages of uranium: 1. Uranium is a possible polluting agent of the natural environment. 2. Uranium is a toxic and radioactive chemical element. 3. Uranium release radium and radon. 4. Radioactive wastes are dangerous and need to be isolated. But working with care these risks can be minimized or avoided.
What are the risk linked with working with uranium?
radation posioning and other very bad things will happen ...
