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A yellowcake boomtown also known as a uranium boomtown, is a town or community that rapidly increases in population and economics due to the discovery of uranium ore-bearing minerals, and the development of uranium mining, milling or enrichment activities.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 26 relations: Arches National Park, Atomic tourism, Boomtown, Cold War, Dominionville, Edgemont, South Dakota, Elliot Lake, Enriched uranium, Ghost town, Gold rush, Grants, New Mexico, Jeffrey City, Wyoming, Moab, Utah, Navajo, Paddy Martinez, Radium Hill, Superfund, Susquehanna Radio Corporation, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Uranium, Uranium City, Uranium mining, Uravan, Colorado, Vanadium, Western United States, Yellowcake.

  2. Ghost towns
  3. Types of towns
  4. Uranium mining

Arches National Park

Arches National Park is a national park in eastern Utah, United States.

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Atomic tourism

Atomic tourism or nuclear tourism is a form of tourism in which visitors witness nuclear tests or learn about the Atomic Age by traveling to significant sites in atomic history such as nuclear test reactors, museums with nuclear weapon artifacts, delivery vehicles, sites where atomic weapons were detonated, and nuclear power plants.

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Boomtown

A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch. Yellowcake boomtown and boomtown are economic growth, types of towns and Urban studies and planning terminology.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Dominionville

Dominionville is a town in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa.

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Edgemont, South Dakota

Edgemont is a city in Fall River County, South Dakota, United States.

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Elliot Lake

Elliot Lake is a city in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.

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Enriched uranium

Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation.

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Ghost town

A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. Yellowcake boomtown and ghost town are ghost towns.

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Gold rush

A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.

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Grants, New Mexico

Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States.

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Jeffrey City, Wyoming

Jeffrey City is a former uranium mining boomtown located in Fremont County, in the central part of the U.S. state of Wyoming.

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Moab, Utah

Moab is the largest city and county seat of Grand County in eastern Utah in the western United States, known for its dramatic scenery.

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The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

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Paddy Martinez

Patricio "Paddy" Martinez (1881– August 26, 1969) was an American prospector and shepherd who discovered uranium at Haystack Mesa in the San Juan Basin near Grants, New Mexico, in 1950.

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Radium Hill

Radium Hill is a former minesite in South Australia which operated from 1906 until 1961.

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Superfund

Superfund is a United States federal environmental remediation program established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).

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Susquehanna Radio Corporation

The Susquehanna Radio Corporation was a media corporation that operated from 1941 to 2006 that was headquartered in York, Pennsylvania.

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United States Atomic Energy Commission

The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by the U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Uranium City

Uranium City is a northern settlement in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Uranium mining

Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground.

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Uravan, Colorado

Uravan (a contraction of uranium/vanadium) is a former uranium mining town in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States, which still appears on some maps.

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Vanadium

Vanadium is a chemical element; it has symbol V and atomic number 23.

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Western United States

The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, and the West, is the region comprising the westernmost U.S. states.

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Yellowcake

Yellowcake (also called urania) is a type of powdered uranium concentrate obtained from leach solutions, in an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores.

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See also

Ghost towns

Types of towns

Uranium mining

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake_boomtown

Also known as Uranium boomtown.