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The ancient Greeks had a tale, there are many versions, this is one (to a point).
Once upon a time. The being Ouranos was the very personification of the sky. The son and husband of Gaia, the earth. He was the father of the twelve Titans, the Giants, the Cyclopes, the hundred-hands, the Furies, and Aphrodite, among others. In the manner of all tyrants, his fall came in time. His son Chronos, with the aid of his mother, threw him down and castrated him. Utterly defeated, impotent, and vengeful, Ouranos foretold his own son's overthrow. Fearful, even in his moment of triumph, of his father's useless wrath, Chronos buried Ouranos deep in the earth. The ultimate irony, and prison for one who had been the sky.
Ever since, Ouranos has lain there, his anger, fury, spite, desire for vengeance and all his other evils, were leeched into the earth around him. The living rock of the earth became infected with it. Ouranos compressed it, crushed it, forged it with the sheer force of his will alone, and then, unable to release himself, sent it up to surface. There, mankind has found his metal. Mines have always been dangerous, cave-ins and fires are just two of the most common hazards. Some mines though, they have another hazard, on top of the other ones. One that cannot be seen. That gets into the very flesh of the miners. One that weakens them, sickens them, wears them down, slowly, slowly. What power could do this, but one that birthed the titans.

Yet there may be more to this thing than curiously coloured glass. For if Einstein and his colleagues are right, and what they propose is even possible. what power could be unleased by splitting apart the very atoms of Uranium.