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Uranium in the Environment - Mining Impact and Consequences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2006)
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Uranium in the Environment - Mining Impact and Consequences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2006)
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Uranium is an element to be found ubiquitous in rock, soil, and
water. Uranium concentrations in natural ground water can be more
than several hundreds g/l without impact from mining, nuclear
industry, and fertilizers. Considering the WHO recommendation for
drinking water of 15 g/l (has been as low as 2 g/l before) due to
the chemical toxicity of uranium the element uranium has become an
important issue in environmental research. 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. In October 1995 the first
international conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology (UMH I)
was held in Freiberg being organized by the Department of Geology
at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg by the support of
the Saxon State Ministry of Geology and Environment. Due to the
large scientific interest in the topic of uranium a second
conference (UMH II) took place in Freiberg in September 1998.
Furthermore, in September 2002 scientists working on the topic of
uranium mining and hydrogeology attended the third conference (UMH
III) which was jointly held together with the International Mine
Water - sociation (IMWA) Symposium 2002. The reviewed papers and
posters of the 2002 conference have been published by Springer
entitled Uranium in the aquatic en- ronment (edited by Merkel,
Planer-Friedrich and Wolkersdorfer).
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