Uranium, mining and hydrogeology

Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
Uranium ISL Mining Activities at the International Atomic Energy Agency....Pages 1-10
Uranium mining legacies remediation and renaissance development: an international overview....Pages 11-18
Understanding Uranium Migration in Hard Rocks....Pages 19-26
Detection of hexavalent uranium with inline and field-portable immunosensors....Pages 27-36
Ground water remediation at the Moab, Utah, USA, former uranium-ore processing site....Pages 37-44
Dispersion of uranium in the environment by fertilization....Pages 45-52
The Potential of Thorium Deposits....Pages 53-58
Mining of Uranium in Kazakhstan....Pages 59-66
Prediction and a new Method of Exploitation of Gold Deposits with Uranium in the Variscian Molass Conglomerate Basins of Germany....Pages 67-68
The Prediction of geodynamic conditions of mining of Elkon uranium field (Eastern Siberia, Russia)....Pages 69-70
Some approaches to remediation study of the fucoid sandstone in the Straz pod Ralskem site - Nothern Bohemia....Pages 71-82
Permeable Reactive Barriers for Treatment of a Groundwater at a Uranium Mine: Laboratory Evaluation of Reactive Materials....Pages 83-84
Depressurising of Deep Underground Workings at McArthur River Mine....Pages 85-86
Could the calixarenes be a viable solution for radioactive decontamination of mine waters from Romania?....Pages 87-92
Treatment of acid drainage in a uranium deposit by means of a passive system....Pages 93-102
Uranium fixation by Cladophora spec .....Pages 103-110
Utilization of autochthonous SRB in uranium mine site remediation....Pages 111-120
Elemental Iron (Fe 0 ) for Better Drinking Water in Rural Areas of Developing Countries....Pages 121-130
Comparison of three different sorbents for uranium retention from a source water....Pages 131-132
Experience gained from the experimental permeable reactive barrier installed on the former uranium mining site....Pages 133-140
Risk Assessment of Uranium in Selected Gold Mining Areas in South Africa....Pages 141-150
Risk assessment of a landfill for wastes containing naturally occurring radionuclides through infiltration to groundwater....Pages 151-162
Integrated Methodology for the Environmental Risk Assessment of an Abandoned Uranium Mining Site....Pages 163-176
Modeling the water flow in unsaturated waste rock pile: an important step in the overall closure planning of the first uranium mining site in Brazil....Pages 177-186
Developing a 3D data model for geohazard assessment in a former uraniferous mining site....Pages 187-192
Uranium and heavy metals in Phosphate Fertilizers....Pages 193-198
Uranium accumulation in sandy soil in an arid region due to agricultural activities....Pages 199-200
Uranium in anthropogenic Lakes of the New Central German Lake District....Pages 201-214
Closure of Underground Mine of Lincang Uranium Mine....Pages 215-220
Small scale uranium mine remediation in northern Australia....Pages 221-228
The remediation of a uranium mining and milling site in Slovenia....Pages 229-238
Feasibility Study on Crust Formation as CO 2 Sink in Uranium and Lignite Post-Mining Sites....Pages 239-246
Modelling and Assessment of Radionuclides Differential Transport in Groundwater....Pages 247-258
Infiltration and Contaminant-Transport Modeling for a Uranium Mill Tailings-Disposal Facility....Pages 259-260
Use of Na-Ferrate (VI) to prevent acid drainage from uranium mill tailings....Pages 261-270
Chemical Behaviour of Uranium in the Tailings Material of Schneckenstein (Germany)....Pages 271-284
Impacts of Uranium Mining on Environment of Fergana Valley in Central Asia....Pages 285-294
The Rum Jungle U-Cu Project: A Critical Evaluation of Environmental Monitoring and Rehabilitation Success....Pages 295-306
Potential of Brassica juncea and Helianthus annuus in phytoremediation for uranium....Pages 307-318
Uranium uptake and accumulation in Phragmites australis Trin. ex Steud. depending on phosphorus availability, litter contamination and ecotype....Pages 319-320
Applications of NH 4 Cl and citrate: Keys to acceptable phytoextraction techniques?....Pages 321-332
Ecological Solutions of Contaminated Environment Remediation from Uranium Mining Activities in Romania....Pages 333-334
Assessment of rehabilitated uranium mine sites, Australia....Pages 335-340
Radiological Assessment of the rehabilitated Nabarlek Uranium Mine, Northern Territory, Australia....Pages 341-342
Groundwater-climate relationships, Ranger uranium mine, Australia: 1. Time series statistical analyses....Pages 343-352
Groundwater-climate relationships, Ranger uranium mine, Australia: 2. Validation of unsaturated flow modelling....Pages 353-360
Groundwater-climate relationships, Ranger uranium mine, Australia: 3. Predicting climate change impacts....Pages 361-370
Environmental Impacts from the North Cave Hills Abandoned Uranium Mines, South Dakota....Pages 371-380
Radioactivity in soils and horticulture products near uranium mining sites....Pages 381-387
Monitoring and remediation of the legacy sites of uranium mining in Central Asia....Pages 389-404
Valorification of the natural capital from the former uraniferous mining area situated in the Romanian Carpathians. Study Case: The Natural Park of Gradistea de Munte – Cioclovina....Pages 405-414
From remediation to long-term monitoring - The concept of key monitoring points at WISMUT....Pages 415-424
Official supervision measurements for remediation and monitoring of Wismut GmbH in Saxony....Pages 425-430
Underground in-situ mine water treatment in a flooded uranium mine at the WISMUT Königstein site - motivation, activities and outlook....Pages 431-436
Remediation effects of the WISMUT project to surface waters in the Elbe watershed: An overview....Pages 437-450
Radiological hazards from uranium mining....Pages 451-458
Radiological evaluation of elevated uranium concentration in ground and surface waters encountered at uranium ore mining and processing sites....Pages 459-468
Radiologically Relevant Radionuclide Depositions in the Agriculturally Used Parts of the Mulde River Floodplains....Pages 469-476
Radiological Investigation and Ecological Risk of South Coastal Section of Issyk-Kul Lake....Pages 477-486
Natural occurring uranium nanoparticles and the implication in bioremediation of surface mine waters....Pages 487-496
Treatment of historical uranium contaminated radioactive waste at necsa for disposal....Pages 497-497
Peat deposits as natural uranium filters? - First results from a case study in a dolomitic gold mining area of South Africa....Pages 499-514
Uranium sorption and desorption behavior on bentonite....Pages 515-524
Uranium(VI) sorption on montmorillonite and bentonite: Prediction and experiments....Pages 525-526
Which factors influence the immobilization of uranium in soils and sediments?....Pages 527-528
Determination of Uranium source term in a Polluted Site: a multitechnique study....Pages 529-530
Peculiarities of radionuclide distribution within rock destruction zones (by the example of the objects at the Semipalatinsk Test Site)....Pages 531-538
Complexation of Uranium by Sulfur and Nitrogen Containing Model Ligands in Aqueous Solution....Pages 539-548
Characterizing As, Cu, Fe and U Solubilization by Natural Waters....Pages 549-560
Flow in a brine-affected aquifer at a uranium mill tailings site near Moab, Utah, USA....Pages 561-570
Problems of the hydrogeological monitoring of objects of the Prydneprovsk Chemical Plant (Dneprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine)....Pages 571-582
Characterization of U(VI) behaviour in the Ruprechtov site (CZ)....Pages 583-590
Spectroscopic study of the uranium(IV) complexation by organic model ligands in aqueous solution....Pages 591-598
Uranium Speciation - from mineral phases to mineral waters....Pages 599-602
Coordination of U(IV) and U(VI) sulfate hydrate in aqueous solution....Pages 603-614
Uranium partitioning during water treatment processes....Pages 615-620
Speciation of Uranium in a Polluted Site: a TRLFS study....Pages 621-622
Uranium(VI) Sulfate Complexation as a Function of Temperature and Ionic Strength Studied by TRLFS....Pages 623-630
Preliminary study of interaction between tailing and the hydrologic cycle at a uranium mine near Tatanagar, India....Pages 631-638
The distribution of uranium in groundwater in the Bushmanland and Namaqualand areas, Northern Cape Province, South Africa....Pages 639-644
Uranium minerals of Bukulja mountain controls on storage reservoir water....Pages 645-652
Migration of uranium in groundwater in three naturally occurring anomalous areas in South Africa....Pages 653-662
Uranium transfer around volcanic-associated uranium deposit....Pages 663-664
Selective Retention of U(VI) and U(IV) Chemical Species on Eichrom Resins: DGA, TEVA and UTEVA....Pages 665-672
The biogeochemistry of uranium in natural-technogenic provinces of the Issik-Kul....Pages 673-680
Radioactivity in soils and horticulture products near uranium mining sites....Pages 681-688
Mechanisms and capacity of sun driven uranium removal in natural and nature-like constructed wetlands....Pages 689-690
Extracellular defence reactions of rape cells caused by uranium exposure....Pages 691-692
Microscopic and spectroscopic investigation of U(VI) interaction with monocellular green algae....Pages 693-702
Interactions of Paenibacillus sp. and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius strains with U(VI)....Pages 703-710
Comparison of elimination capacity of uranium from the water pathway between periphytic algae, submerse macrophytes and helophytes (emerse vascular plants)....Pages 711-712
Microbial transformations of uranium in wastes and implication on its mobility....Pages 713-722
Uranium biomineralization by uranium mining waste isolates: a multidisciplinary approach study....Pages 723-724
Uranyl reduction by Geobacter sulfurreducens in the presence or absence of iron....Pages 725-732
Characterization of the microbial diversity in the abandoned uranium mine Königstein....Pages 733-742
Biogeochemical changes induced by uranyl nitrate in a uranium waste pile....Pages 743-752
Comparative investigation of the interaction of uranium with lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan....Pages 753-754
Environmental implications of Mn(II)-reacted biogenic UO 2 ....Pages 755-762
The effect of temperature on the speciation of U(VI) in sulfate solutions....Pages 763-770
Safety functions derived from geochemistry for safety analysis of final disposal of high-level radioactive waste....Pages 771-778
Fault-related barriers for uranium transport....Pages 779-790
Uranium glasses: the experimental leaching compared to the long-term natural corrosion....Pages 791-798
Radiochemical methods analysis of U and Th: metrological and geochemical applications....Pages 799-806
Characterization of the interactions between uranium and colloids in soil by on-line fractionation multi-detection methods....Pages 807-814
Towards a more safe environment: Disposability of uranium by some clay sediments in Egypt....Pages 815-816
The Importance of Organic Colloids for the Transport of Uranium and other Decay Chain Elements in a Boreal Stream Network....Pages 817-818
Assessments and decreasing of risks and damages from outbursts of Tien-Shan high mountains lakes....Pages 819-826
Uranium-isotopic method using to determine sources of moraine-glacial lakes feeding and assess of its outburst danger....Pages 827-828
Impact of uranium mines water treatment on uranium and radium behaviour....Pages 829-838
Changes of radium concentration in discharge waters from coal mines in Poland as a result of mitigation....Pages 839-850
Radium transfer from solid into liquid phase – a theoretical approach to its behaviour in aquifers....Pages 851-864
Distribution of Ra-226 downstream a uranium mining site....Pages 865-872
Uranium and its decay products in radioactive anomalies of the oxidized brown coals (the western part of the Kansko-Achinsk brown coal basin)....Pages 873-880
Assessment of radiological impact of mining and processing low grade uranium ores on the environment and monitoring strategies....Pages 881-894
Method of reducing radon levels in buildings....Pages 895-900
Water tight Radon / Thoron probs and monitors without influence of high humidity, air pressure and temperature....Pages 901-902
Continuous Measurement of geo-chemical parameters in aggressive environment....Pages 903-906
Thermodynamical Data of uranyl carbonate complexes from Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 907-914
Digital elevation model created by airborne laser scanning in the field of mines areas....Pages 915-916
Numerical simulation of groundwater flow and particle tracking around the proposed Uranium mine site, Andhra Pradesh, India....Pages 917-918
Assessment of Uranyl Sorption Constants on Ferrihydrite – Comparison of Model Derived Constants and Updates to the Diffuse Layer Model Database....Pages 919-928
Surface complexation of U(VI) by Fe and Mn (hydr)oxides....Pages 929-930
Differential equations of a U-Ra-Pb system accounting for a diffusion of components....Pages 931-934
The use of kinetic modeling as a tool in the understanding of the geochemical processes at a uranium mine site....Pages 935-944
Origin and oxidation processes of the Oklo uranium ore, Gabon: Reactive transport modelling....Pages 945-948
Study of uranium sorption by bentonite....Pages 949-950
Back Matter....Pages 951-955