URANIUM MINING
SOVIET’S DESPERATE EFFORT CZECH DEPOSITS BOOSTED WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Representative Karl Stefan (Republican, Nebraska) declared to-day that Russia was operating the uranium mines of Czechoslovakia in a desperate effort to develop an atomic bomb. Mr Stefan, who recently returned from a tour of Europe, said that Russia took over the Czech uranium mines at Jackymov in 1945, and by working German prisoners under dangerous conditions had boosted production to 200 tons of uranium ore a year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26846, 10 August 1948, Page 5
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78URANIUM MINING Otago Daily Times, Issue 26846, 10 August 1948, Page 5
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