Uranium, Mining and Hydrogeology
Broder J. Merkel · Andrea Hasche-Berger
Uranium, Mining and Hydrogeology
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Editor Prof. Dr. Broder J. Merkel TU Bergakademie Freiberg Inst. Geologie Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 12 09596 Freiberg Germany
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ISBN: 978-3-540-87745-5
Andrea Hasche-Berger TU Bergakademie Freiberg Inst. Geophysik Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 12 09596 Freiberg Germany
e-ISBN: 978-3-540-87746-2
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Contents
Preface .............................................................................................................. XVII Foreword ............................................................................................................ XIX
Plenary ........................................................................................................ 1 Uranium ISL Mining Activities at the International Atomic Energy Agency Jan Slezak ................................................................................................................ 1 Uranium mining legacies remediation and renaissance development: an international overview Peter Waggitt ......................................................................................................... 11 Understanding Uranium Migration in Hard Rocks W. Eberhard Falck, David Read, S. Black, D. Thornley, M. Markovaara-Koivisto and M. Siitari-Kauppi ................................................... 19 Detection of hexavalent uranium with inline and field-portable immunosensors Scott J. Melton, Haini Yu, Mehnaaz F. Ali, Kenneth H. Williams, Michael J. Wilkins, Philip E. Long and Diane A. Blake ....................................... 27 Ground water remediation at the Moab, Utah, USA, former uranium-ore processing site Donald R. Metzler, Joseph D. Ritchey, Kent A. Bostick, Kenneth G. Pill and Elizabeth M. Glowiak ..................................................................................... 37 Dispersion of uranium in the environment by fertilization Ewald Schnug and Silvia Haneklaus ..................................................................... 45
Session I: Uranium Mining ..................................................................... 53 The Potential of Thorium Deposits Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera ..................................