Influence of Radionuclides on Farmland Soil and Creek Sediment around a Uranium Mine in the Southwest of China

Jun Wen Lv; Qin Wen Deng; Yu Zhang

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.455.23

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Influence of Radionuclides on Farmland Soil and Creek Sediment around a Uranium Mine in the Southwest of China

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The farmland soil and creek sediments in different depth in the mining area were sampled, and their content of ²³⁸U,²²⁶Ra and ²³²Th were determined by gamma spectrometric method to assess the impact of the soil environment by single index method. The result shows ²³²Th was not influenced on soil in survey area. ²²⁶Ra influenced more seriously than ²³⁸U on farmland soil, meanwhile, the farmland soil at downstream of tailings dam was contaminated seriously by radionuclides than at other places. For creak sediments ,adit water resulted in more serious pollution by ²³⁸U than ²²⁶Ra, however, tailings erosion resulted in more serious pollution by ²²⁶Ra than ²³⁸U.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 455)

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Jun Wen Lv*, Qin Wen Deng, Yu Zhang

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Creek Sediment, Farmland Soil, Influence, Radionuclide

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