Supercritical Decay

Charles Stankievech

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Page scan of Michaël Maier, Scrutinium chymicum (1867) from Mircea Eliade, The Forge and The Crucible: The Origins And Structure Of Alchemy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956/1962).

Issue #65
May 2015










Notes
1

Clarice Lispector, Água Viva, trans. Stefan Tobler (New York: New Directions, 1973/2012), 34–35.

2

E. D. Davis, C. R. Gould, and E. I. Sharapov, “Oklo reactors and implications for nuclear science,” International Journal of Modern Physics, vol. 23, no. 4 (2014).

3

Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency, trans. Ray Brassier (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010), 10.

4

COVRA Annual Report 2012, Jaarrapport 2012 ; Hans Codée and Ewoud Verhoef, “What’s the story?: Using art, stories and cultural heritage to preserve knowledge and memory,” OECD/NEA Conference: Constructing Memory, Verdun, France, September 15–17, 2014, PowerPoint file.

5

Cori Vanchieri, “Radiation Therapy Pursuit Leads to Unearthing of ‘Hot Bones,’” Journal of the National Cancer Institute, vol. 82 (21) (1990): 1667; “Death Stirs Action On Radium ‘Cures,’” New York Times, April 2, 1932; Robley D. Evans, “Radium Poisoning: A Review of Present Knowledge,” American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, vol. 23 (10) (1933); C. Prentiss Orr, “Eben M. Byers: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Amateur Golf, Modern Medicine and the FDA,” Allegheny Cemetery Heritage, Fall 2004; Ron Winslow, “The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off,” Wall Street Journal, August 1, 1990; R. M. Macklis, “Radithor and the Era of Mild Radium Therapy,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 264 (5) (1990): 614–18.

6

Keith A. Hobson, “Applying Isotopic Methods to Tracking Animal Movements,” Tracking Animal Migration with Stable Isotopes, ed. K. A. Hobson and L. I. Wassenaar (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008), 45–78; Terrance McKenna, “New details revealed about the poisioning of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko,” The National, CBC Television, April 6, 2015; Luke Harding, “Alexander Litvinenko inquiry: five more things we’ve learned,” The Guardian, February 27, 2015; Ambassador Craig Stapleton, “US Embassy Cable: A/S FRIED AND FRENCH NSA-EQUIVALENT,” December 12, 2006, reprinted in The Guardian, December 1, 2010; Roland E. Langford, Introduction to Weapons of Mass Destruction: Radiological, Chemical, and Biological (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004), 84.

7

George Bataille, “Van Gogh as Prometheus (1937),” October 36 (Spring 1986): 59.

8

William J. Broad, “Useful Mutants, Bred with Radiation,” New York Times, August 28, 2007; Richard W. Pell and Lauren B. Allen, “Preface to a Genealogy of the Postnatural,” Land & Animal & Nonaminal, ed. Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, intercalations series (Berlin and Toronto: K. Verlag and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2015).

9

“Iraqi uranium removed to Canada,” World Nuclear News, July 8, 2008 ; US Embassy of Iraq/Department of Energy, “Subject: Tuwaitha Yellow Cake Sale Negotiations Update,” Ambassador Charles Ries, Canonical ID: 08BAGHDAD845_a. Baghdad, Iraq, March 20, 2008; Telegram (cable), published by Wikileaks; Brianna Keilar and Larry Shaughnessy, “500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon says,” CNN, July 7, 2008 ; Andy Hoffman, “A chain reaction that put Iraq’s nuclear hoard in Canada’s hands,” Globe and Mail, July 8, 2008 ; Alissa Rubin and Campbell Robertson, “U.S. Helps Remove Uranium From Iraq,” New York Times, July 7, 2008 .

10

For the Khan Resources press release, see ; “Jim Doak, Canadian mining executive, found dead in Mongolia,” CBC News, April 23, 2015; “Хан ресурс­ын дарга Монголд нас баржээ,” News Agency, April 23, 2015 ; “Uranium in Mongolia,” World Nuclear Association, March 16, 2015 .

11

Food and Drug Administration ; “Radioisotopes in Medicine,” World Nuclear Association, updated April 2015 ; “Chalk River makes 1st isotopes in 15 months,” CBC News, August 18, 2010.

12

Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology,” Basic Writings (1954), ed. David Farrell Krell, trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), 311–12.

13

Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, “Defining the Anthropocene,” Nature 519 (March 12, 2015): 174; Corbin Allardice and Edward R. Trapnell, “The First Pile” (1946), International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 0 (1962); Elizabeth DeLoughrey, “Heliotropes: Solar Ecologies and Pacific Radiations,” in Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment, ed. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).