With a cornice, it is the fascia board. May also be called verge board. Base or Baseboard: A narrow board or member placed at the juncture of the floor and wall to cover the joint. Base Cap: A strip of wood or other molding used to finish the upper edge of the baseboard. Base Shoe: A trim piece of wood or other material used at the bottom of the baseboard.
Russiaâs Secret City: The Most Radioactive Place On Earth. âThe arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.â âMartin Amis. In A Nutshell. Russiaâs Lake Karachay was used in the 1950s as a dumping site for radioactive waste. Now it is the most polluted place on the planet, with enough radioactivity to kill a person in less than an hour. At its height, it was putting more than 200,000 times the normal amount of radioactivity into the area due to poor waste disposal practices.
A silvery, metallic, naturally radioactive element, atomic number 93, the first of the transuranium elements. Its longest-lived isotope is Np-237 with a half-life of 2.1 million years. Found in trace quantities in uranium ores, it is produced synthetically by nuclear reactions. See Periodic Table.