Jachymov, a small uranium mining town in the northwest of the Czech Republic, has been key in the field of radioactivity research. More than a century ago, Marie and Pierre Curie based their revolutionary work on radioactivity on material brought from there. It soon became a birthplace of radium mass hysteria and a center of unconventional radon health baths.

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