Environmental Contamination from Uranium Production Facilities and their Remediation
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Author(s): IAEA
Publisher: IAEA
ISBN: 9201043058
Format: softback
261pp
Price: €80
Review Date: 10 April 2006
Review: Legacies of past uranium mining and milling activities continue to cause concern and need assessment and remedial action. The search for uranium has continued all over the world, leaving numerous small-scale mines and mills. The workshop was held to mark the successful completion of an IAEA technical cooperation project deigned to assist Portugal in dealing with its mining legacy. The 22 papers in this book cover topics from: the preliminary results of a risk assessment study for uranium contamination in central Portugal, through radon surveys, radioactivity in public water supplies, and risk-based cost–benefit analysis in Portugal, to remediation in Poland, decommissioning mines in Canada, and experiences in other countries – the Czech republic, Spain, Slovenia, and Bulgaria.