{"id":1885,"date":"2023-10-02T13:14:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/?page_id=1885"},"modified":"2023-10-02T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:14:52","slug":"radio-e-uranio-em-latour-1999","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/projetos\/a-agencia-social-dos-elementos-quimicos\/levantamentos-da-presenca-de-elementos-quimicos-em-livros\/radio-e-uranio-em-latour-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00e1dio e ur\u00e2nio em Latour (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 1939 Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Joliot, advised by his friends in the Ministry of War and by Andr\u00e9 Laugier, the director of the recently established CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France&#8217;s National Center for Scientific Research), entered into a very subtle legal agreement with a Belgian company, the Union Mini\u00e8re du HautKatanga. Thanks to the discovery of <strong>radium<\/strong> by Pierre and Marie Curie and the discovery of <strong>uranium<\/strong> deposits in the Congo, this company had become the most important supplier to all the laboratories in the world that were feeling their way toward the production of the first artificial nuclear chain reaction. Joliot, like his mother-in-law Marie Curie before him, had found a way of getting the company involved. In fact, the Union Mini\u00e8re used its radioactive ores only as a source of <strong>radium<\/strong>, which it sold to doctors; immense heaps of <strong>uranium<\/strong> oxide were left lying about at its waste sites. Joliet planned to build an atomic reactor, for which he would need a huge quantity of <strong>uranium<\/strong>; this made what had been a mere waste product of the production of <strong>radium<\/strong> into something valuable. The company promised Joliot five tons of <strong>uranium<\/strong> oxide, technical assistance, and a million francs. In return, all the French scientists&#8217; discoveries would be patented by a syndicate which would distribute the profits fifty-fifty between the Union Mini\u00e8re and the CNRS. (Latour 1999:81)<\/p>\n<p>LATOUR, Bruno. 1999. <em>Pandora\u2019s Hope: essays on the reality of science studies<\/em>. London: Harvard University Press.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 1939 Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Joliot, advised by his friends in the Ministry of War and by Andr\u00e9 Laugier, the director of the recently established CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France&#8217;s National Center for Scientific Research), entered into a very subtle legal agreement with a Belgian company, the Union Mini\u00e8re du HautKatanga. Thanks to the discovery of radium by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1212,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1885","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1885\/revisions\/1886"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}