Uranium in the Environment

Mining Impact and Consequences

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Besides natural enrichment of uranium in aquifers uranium mining and milling activities, further uranium processing to nuclear fuel, emissions form burning coal and oil, and the application of uranium containing phosphate fertilizers may enrich the natural uranium concentrations in soil and water by far.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-08-23
Mått155 x 235 x 49 mm
Vikt1 352 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor897
FörlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN9783662517932

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From the contents Long-term Aspects of Uranium Mining Remediation.- Returning the WISMUT Legacy to Productive Use.- Coupled Microbial and Chemical Reactions in Uranium Bioremediation.- Modelling of Uranium Release from Waste Rock Pile.- Variation in Heavy Metal Uptake by Crop Plants.- Environmental Regulation of Uranium Mining in Australia.- Contaminated Sediments in the Elbe Basin and its Tributary Mulde.- Regulating Idle Uranium Mines in Canada.- Tracer Tests as a Mean of Remediation Procedures in Mines.- Factors Affecting the plant Availability of Uranium in Soils.- Index.

From the reviews:"Andrea Hasche-Berger and Broder J. Merkel did a magnificent job in gathering together 92 contributions within a short time interval for rapid publication. … the book’s figures appear in a good black-and-white quality, and additionally all articles are published in colour on the accompanying CD-ROM, enabling the reader to really use all the figures. … The book is a good source that gives an overview on the international work in the field of uranium … ." (Andreas Winkler, Environmental Geology, Vol. 51, 2006)