RJA #9C

For my presentation I will start by talking about the history of uranium. I believe that the history even before the U.S. started to mine for uranium is very important to understand how we have advanced our knowledge of uranium. Also, there is a lot of interesting information that everyone should know about this mineral. After that I plan on talking about the damaging effects of extracting this mineral from the earth.

RJA 9B

Thesis: Due to the damaging effects of uranium mining, the United States of America, must implament tougher restrictions on placing a claim and on the mining operations.
Arguments: 1. The enviromental effects are far to damaging of uranium mining
2. The health of the workers is far to costly for money earned.
3. The effect on families is extremely straining.
4. The effects on local communities are extremely davastating.
Counters: 1. Mining companies are taking better steps to mitigate damage to enviroment.
2. The government has settled to pay for health care of affected workers.
3. The families and workers are aware of what they are getting into
4. The revenue brought in to the local communities pay for far more then what damage is created.

RJA # 9A

Due to the damaging effects of uranium mining, the United States of America, must implement tougher restriction on placing a claim and on mining operations.
Question: Are the effects of uranium mining to damaging to the Colorado platuea.

RJA #8B

First, I looked at Luc page at http://lucarnaudsresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2010/03/eng-1020-rja-7a.html#comments and found that these were good assesments.
Next, I looked at Pranai's page and didnt get the URL. On the post for both they have to be approved first. In case they do not get posted, Luc had good sources and discussed the credibility of each. I believe that he has some good sources. For Pranai's sources there is just a post on what each source has not if they are credible or not.

RJA #8 Summary

"Although uranium is radioactive, it is not particularly rare. It is widely spread throughout the environment and so it is impossible to avoid uranium. Uranium can be found naturally in the environment in very small amounts in rocks, soil, air and water. Humans add uranium metals and compounds, because they are released during mining and milling processes."
http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/u.htm
According to Lenntech.com ". . . uranium is radioactive, it is not particularly rare [ non enriched form]." They continue to talk about the many sources that uranium is introduced into the human body such as food, air, and water. The small amouts in each of these sources are nowhere near the amount at which uranium becomes toxic. It isn't until the uranium is enriched that small quanitites becomes highly dangorus to humans. In mining and milling the amount a human is exsposed to becomes greater and so does the riskes involved.(www.lenntech.com)

Uranium is found throughout the world. It is not at all a rare mineral. This makes uranium exsposure a daily occurrence in everyones daily lives. This mineral is found everywhere from air, to the soil, to the water that we drink.(www.lenntech.com)

Most people don't think about uranium exsposure as somthing that happens in their lives. With the amount of uranium in our enviroment makes this a daily occurrence. Even though this material is radioactive by nature, there isn't anything to fear. The introduction of uranium into the human body come form the air, soil, and water all around us.(www.lenntech.com)

RJA #6C

The three field research options that I have brainstormed are as follows:
1. Observe the area of Uravan, Colorado
2. Send a Email questionaire to a representitive at the Colorado reclimation and saftey orginization
3. Send a Email questionaire to a representitive at one of the Uranium mining companies located here in Colorado.

RJA #5

Resource searched or tool used: Blog pulse
Keywords used: Uranium and Colorado plataeu
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Bolean, AND, ""
Date of search: 7 March 2010
Number of hits: 14
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): The relevance on this site was really good. Most of the hits were for new mining operations. I would give this site a 5.


Resource searched or tool used: Icerocket
Keywords used: Uranuim and Colorado plateau
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): bolean, AND, ""
Date of search: 7 March 2010
Number of hits: 21
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): Most of the hits were older then 30 days and had ok relevance with my topic. I would rate this at a 4.

RJA #6a

Resource searched or tool used: Bing Search engine
Keywords used: Uranium Mining and Colorado Plateau
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Used bolean with operator: and
Date of search 8 March 2010
Number of hits: 62,600
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): The first few hits were a number 5, As the list goes on the relevance drops.

Resource searched or tool used: wolfram alpha
Keywords used: Uranium, I tryed to use other keywords but it couldn't compute the request.
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): I was unable to use anything other then Uranium due to the way this site works.
Date of search:8 March 2010
Number of hits: 1
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): This site gave me everything I need to know about Uranium in a technical sense. There for this was a good 5 on relevance.

Resource searched or tool used: Atnio
Keywords used: Uranium Mining and Colorado Plateau
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Bolean
Date of search: 9 March 2010
Number of hits 60
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): As a whole the sites listed where hit or miss. Some of the sites deal with the excat topic but others only had half of the keywords used. So I would list this as a 3 on the relevance scale.
As far as the invisible wed search I had a great deal of trouble getting them to work for me. I was searching on one site and it ended up closeing out all my internet windows. Others just didn't seem to work for me.