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Determination of inorganic species in seepage water of uranium-mining rockpiles and in related media

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Investigations are currently carried out in Saxony to study environmental impacts due to uranium-mining activities. Radioactive and other inorganic species were determined in both mining waters of different origin and leachates from mediumscale column experiments and batch-tests. Uranium concentrations were measured using γ-spectrometry, absorption spectrophotometry, square-wave polarography and inductively coupled mass spectrometry. For mining waters the concentration range was less than 1 to ca 4 mg·dm−3, in one case up to 7 mg·dm−3.

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  1. Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Institut für Radiochemie, PF 510119, D-1314, Dresden, Germany

    G. Geipel & M. Thieme

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Geipel, G., Thieme, M. Determination of inorganic species in seepage water of uranium-mining rockpiles and in related media. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 183, 139–145 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02043127

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