Uranium - Past and Future Challenges: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Uranium Boom in Namibia – Hausse or Baisse....Pages 1-24
Rare earth elements in Australian uranium deposits....Pages 25-30
IAEA Initiatives Supporting Good Practice in Uranium Mining Worldwide....Pages 31-40
Challenging Issues in Regulating Uranium Mining in Tanzania....Pages 41-46
Uranium leaching from a burning black shale deposit – present conditions and future scenarios....Pages 47-54
Is enough information available to derive an overall EQS for uranium in French freshwaters, according to European Guidance?....Pages 55-62
Radiation exposure and environmental remediation at the Urgeiriça mine site, Portugal....Pages 63-72
The modern hydrochemical state of the Mailuu-Suuriver and radioecological problem of the Fergana Valley....Pages 73-78
Social Licensing in Uranium Mining: Empowering Stakeholders through Information....Pages 79-86
Social licensing and Stakeholder Communication in Uranium Exploration and Mining....Pages 87-94
Environmental radiation monitoring around uranium ore deposits and mining sites in India: An overview....Pages 95-104
Optimization of Uranium In-situ Recovery Based on Advanced Geophysical Surveying and Borehole Logging Technologies....Pages 105-112
Fuzzy MCDA for remediation of a Uranium tailing....Pages 113-122
Uranium in phosphate fertilizers – review and outlook....Pages 123-130
Uranium and Molybdenum transfer within the oxidized zone of uranium deposit....Pages 131-138
Release of uranium from weathered black shale in meso-scale reactor systems – first year of data....Pages 139-146
Environmental Issues and Proposed Assessment of Feasibility of Remediation of the Legacy Sites of Mining and Milling in the Area of Sumsar-Shekaftar in Kyrgyzstan....Pages 147-154
Heavy metals and natural radionuclides in the water of Syr Darya River, Kazakhstan....Pages 155-160
Establishment of a database of uranium anomalies and zones in Mongolia....Pages 161-168
Uranium, Rare Earths and NORM: Mining and current prospects in Australia’s Northern Territory....Pages 169-176
Technical Status of Mine Water Control in China and Its Development Strategy....Pages 177-184
Revisiting a case study on uranium exposure linked to leukaemia – preliminary results....Pages 185-192
Virtual Geographical Environments as a tool to map human exposure to mining-related radionuclides....Pages 193-200
Assessing risks associated with the flooding of mine voids on underground infrastructure and water resources in and around Johannesburg (South Africa)....Pages 201-210
Hydrogeological testing for ISL uranium mining: some Australian experience....Pages 211-220
Remediation of a uranium geological exploration facility....Pages 221-228
Does wind energy production cause more radioactive doses than nuclear power plants?....Pages 229-238
Impact of humic substances on uranium mobility in soil – A case study from the Gessenwiese test field, Germany....Pages 239-248
U-Th-Pb data as a tool for bordering small-scale regions of in-situ monazite mineralization....Pages 249-258
Sorption of U(VI) and As(V) on SiO 2 , Al 2 O 3 , TiO 2 and FeOOH: A column experiment study....Pages 259-270
Characterization of phosphogypsum deposited in Schistos remediated waste site (Piraeus, Greece)....Pages 271-280
Rare earth ore refining in Kuantan/Malaysia – the next legacy ahead?....Pages 281-288
Uranium sorption onto the granites of Nizhnekansk massif....Pages 289-296
REE fractionation and distribution of Fe, Ni and U in the soil-water-biomass system along the flow path of Gessenbach, Eastern Thuringia (Germany)....Pages 297-304
The externalized costs of uranium mining in the United States....Pages 305-310
Microbial consortia in radionuclide rich groundwater....Pages 311-316
Flooding of the underground mine workings of the old Witwatersrand gold/uranium mining areas: acid mine drainage generation and long term options for water quality management....Pages 317-324
Assessment of the success of rehabilitation at waste rock piles of the former uranium mining from the supervisory authority’s perspective by the example of Schlema-Alberoda (Germany)....Pages 325-332
Microbes affect the speciation of various uranium compounds in wastes and soils....Pages 333-346
Uranium induced stress promotes fungal excretion of uranium/metal stabilizing ligands: Analysis of metal-organic compounds with Size Exclusion Chromatography and Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy....Pages 347-354
Passive treatment of heavily polluted drainage waters in a uranium deposit....Pages 355-362
At the crossroads: Flooding of the underground uranium leach operation at Königstein (Germany) – A 2014 status brief....Pages 363-368
Do macrofungi accumulate uranium?....Pages 369-376
Treatment of Acid Wastewater Containing Uranium by Sulfate Reducing Bacteria....Pages 377-386
Current reclamation of historical uraniferous tailings dams and sand dumps – exacerbating the mess or minimizing the mining footprint? Case studies within the Witwatersrand goldfields....Pages 387-400
Challenges of water management during tailings remediation – Site and catchment-specific focus....Pages 401-408
Thirteen Years Later: Status of the Moab UMTRA Project Long-term Remedial Action....Pages 409-416
Overcoming the barriers to implementation of decommissioning and environmental remediation projects - a focus on uranium mining legacy sites. The CIDER Project....Pages 417-424
Phytostabilization of uranium-containing shale residues using Hieracium pilosella ....Pages 425-432
Reliable water management as key success factor for the remediation of uranium production sites under humid conditions....Pages 433-442
Mine Water Quality Evolution at Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Czech Republic....Pages 443-450
Glass Bead Filter Packs in Water Wells for Higher Efficiency and Reduced O & M costs....Pages 451-460
Soil hydrological monitoring in the framework of the remediation and long-term safeguard of uranium ore mining residues of the Wismut GmbH....Pages 461-468
The New European Radiation Protection Safety Standards as Basis to Asses the Radiological State Achieved at Remediated Uranium Legacy Sites (WISMUT Sites) in Germany....Pages 469-476
Geochemical controls on U immobilization in the subsurface....Pages 477-486
Impact of Uranium Mill Tailings on Water Resources in Mailuu Suu, Kyrgyzstan....Pages 487-496
Rhizofiltration of U by plant root surfaces in a tailing wetland....Pages 497-508
Temporal and Special Variation of Pore Water and Seepage Quality of an Abandoned Uranium Milling Tailings Impoundment....Pages 509-518
Neotectonics influence of identified active geological structures on the safety of uranium tailings production Dniprodzerzhynsk industrial agglomeration (Ukraine)....Pages 519-528
Re-Engineering Antibodies for Optimum Performance in Uranium Sensors....Pages 529-536
Longevity Estimates for a Permeable Reactive Barrier System Remediating a 90 Sr Plume....Pages 537-544
Radon diffusion in rocks and minerals....Pages 545-552
Solubility of Radium and Strontium Sulfate across the Temperature Range of 0 to 300°C....Pages 553-564
Cost Effective Screening of Mine Waters Using Accessible Field Test Kits—Experience with a High School Project in the Wonderfonteinspruit Catchment, South Africa....Pages 565-572
Dispersion Modelling of Natural Radionuclides 238 U, 232 Th and 40 K Released from Coal-Fired Power Plants Operations....Pages 573-580
Sequential Extraction of U and Th Isotopes: Study of Their Intrinsic Distribution in Phosphate and Limestone Sedimentary Rock in Comparison with Black Shale....Pages 581-590
Radium in Groundwater....Pages 591-598
Speciation analysis based design of mine water treatment technologies....Pages 599-608
225 Years Uranium and Radioactivity Cross-Links Around the Brocken: Klaproth, Elster and Geitel, Nazi Research, Wismut Prospection, and Recent Anomalies....Pages 609-616
Contamination of Water Bodies Affected by Post-Mining Activities in the Light of the European Water Framework Directive....Pages 617-624
Changes of Water Composition in Filtration Processes Due to Natural Geological Formations Obtained from Opencast Mines....Pages 625-634
Distribution of Uranium and Thorium Isotopes in Colloidal and Dissolved Fraction of Water from San Marcos Dam, Chihuahua, Mexico....Pages 635-642
Rn-222 - a potential health risk for thermal spas workers in Poland....Pages 643-648
Measurement of Indoor Radon, Thoron and Their Progeny Concentrations in the Dwellings of District Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India....Pages 649-656
Soils and Ground Water’s Radioactive Contamination into the Local Zone of the “Shelter” Object and Industrial Site of Chernobyl NPP....Pages 657-664
Investigation into the Transport of 238 U-series Radionuclides in Soils to Plants....Pages 665-672
Development of a Biochemical Sensor for the Determination of Uranium in Aqueous Solutions....Pages 673-680
Modelling of U Series Nuclides Disequilibria: Presentation a Modelling Tool....Pages 681-688
Comparison of Approaches in Slovenia and Kazakhstan in Managing Exposure to Radon....Pages 689-698
Reactive transport simulation applied on uranium ISR: effect of the density-driven flow....Pages 699-706
Uranium contamination of soil and groundwater by phosphate fertilizer application....Pages 707-716
Investigation of Phenomena in Uranium Mine Waters using Hydrogeochemical Modeling – a case study....Pages 717-724
3D Reactive Transport simulations of Uranium In Situ Leaching: Forecast and Process Optimization....Pages 725-730
Where has all the uranium gone? Or what feeds Dimona – circumstantial evidence for an illicit fate of uranium from rock phosphate processing....Pages 731-738
Planning of reactive barriers – an integrated, comprehensive but easy to understand modeling approach....Pages 739-744
Uranium in 31 Swedish ashes – differences between boiler type and fuels....Pages 745-750
Characterization of natural phosphates and phosphogypsum....Pages 751-758
Radioactivity assessment at the site of historical radium salts factory....Pages 759-768
Hydrogeochemistry of Uranium in the Groundwaters of Serbia....Pages 769-776
Seed crops: Alternative for non-remediable uranium mine soils....Pages 777-784
Using high temperature reactors for energy neutral phosphate fertilizer and phosphogypsum processing....Pages 785-792
On-Line X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Uranium and Thorium Materials in Mining and Processing Industry....Pages 793-804
Nanofiltration of uranium-contaminated water – focus on separation mechanisms....Pages 805-810
Investigations of uranium and trace elements in groundwater of the Tanjero Area, Kurdistan Region, Iraq....Pages 811-820
Radon measurement along faults in the Upper Rhine Graben with standardized methods....Pages 821-828
Mulde River - A Uranium Mining Archive....Pages 829-838
Mitigation of radon exposures caused by uranium mining legacies at WISMUT sites....Pages 839-846
Determination of uranium in mineral phosphate fertilizers using a low cost gamma spectroscope....Pages 847-854
The study of remediation activity of system plant-microorganisms in the model experiments of oil polluted soils....Pages 855-860
Laboratory and field test Study on Sandstone Permeability Characteristics....Pages 861-870