IntroductionNowadays many people around the world have become addicted to things that seem useless or useless such as the Internet and television. This is one of the negative effects of science and the resulting technology. Some of these technologies seem harmless, like cell phones and computers, but it seems that as the years go by, people want more and more power, literally and figuratively. The element uranium is a perfect example; this element has the power to generate energy for millions of people and the power to do harm in nuclear war. The earth is made up of about 111 elements and their combinations, but only about 90 elements occur in nature. In 1789 Martin Klaproth discovered a new element and decided to name it after the newly discovered planet Uranus (Zoellner, 2009). This element called uranium is lithophilic and is the last natural element in the periodic table. It is the 92nd element, containing 92 protons and an atomic mass of 238.0 grams (Cox, 1995). Uranium comes from the minerals uranite and canotite and is present only in low concentrations of igneous rocks, such as granite. Uranium can also be seen in some ceramic glazes, as well as armor-piercing weapon metals. This element also contains an extremely long half-life of over four billion years. This means that most of the uranium on the earth today is exactly the same uranium that was present at the creation of the Earth (Cox, 1995; Thomson, 1963). Uranium has multiple isotopes, the most common isotope being uranium-238, and with uranium-235 being the most popular, but least abundant. Surprisingly, uranium is not necessary for the sustainability of life, and is not chemically toxic (Cox, ... center of paper ... gets put into the wrong hands, such as terrorists, and people who don't fully understand its properties. If used imprudently it could cause the destruction of life itself. Works Cited Cox, PA (1995: The Elements on Earth: Inorganic Chemistry in the Environment New York: Oxford University Press). CERAMIC COULD PREVENT NUCLEAR DISASTER, 028.Garwin, R. (2013 New Scientist), 218(2919), 18.Scerri, Eric R. (2007). University Press.Seaborg, Eric (2001). The Atom. New York: Oxford University Press.Zoellner, Tom (2009)..