Uranium Mining in Europe
The Impacts on Man and Environment
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About the author: Peter Diehl, born in 1954, was for many years speaker of the Citizen Committee Against Uranium Mining in the Southern Black Forest (Germany). The committee struggled against the planned commercial operation of the Menzenschwand uranium exploration mine. From 1988, he visited many uranium mining sites in Europe. In 1991, he organized a European conference of citizen comittees opposed to uranium mining, the first conference of its kind after the fall of the iron curtain.
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© 1995 by uranium@t-online.de - Peter Diehl
Photographs: Peter Diehl
Special thanks to Monica Muurlink of WISE Glen Aplin, who edited the text of this brochure in her solar-powered hut in the Australian bush.
CONTENTS
PREFACE1. URANIUM PRODUCTION IN EUROPE
- Overview
- Germany
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Poland
- Hungary
- Rumania
- Bulgaria
- Ukraine
- Russia
- France
- Spain
- Portugal
- Others
3. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
- Uranium Mines
- Waste Rock
- Heap Leaching Piles
- In-Situ Leaching
- Uranium Milling
- Uranium Mill Tailings
- Dumping of Extraneous Waste
- Alternatives for Uranium Mill Tailings Management
- Management of Existing Uranium Mill Tailings
- Reclamation After In-Situ Leaching
- Reclamation Standards
- Reclamation Cost
- Uranium Mines
- Waste Rock Piles
- Uranium Mills
- Uranium Mill Tailings
- In-Situ Leaching
- Public Participation
- Reclamation Law
- Financing
- Related Maps:
- Uranium mines and mills in Thuringia and Saxony
- Uranium mines and mills in Germany
- Uranium mines and mills in Czech Republic
- Uranium mines and mills in Poland
- Uranium mines and mills in Bulgaria
- Uranium mines and mills in France
- Wismut uranium production 1946-1991
- Related images:
- Radiation Exposure SDAG Wismut
- Uranium Production
- Uranium Concentrations in Rock
- Elevated Radon Levels
- Heap leaching of uranium ore
- In Situ Leaching of Uranium
- The uranium-238 decay chain
- Radioactivity in tailings
- Uranium Mill Tailings Hazards
- Typical construction of a tailings dam
- Major environmental transport pathways from uranium mill tailings to man
- Related Photo's:
- Open pit mine Le Bosc near Lodè (Hérault, France)
- Landscape of piles at Paitzdorf, Ronneburg (Thuringia), May 1990
- Waste rock piles at Schlema (Saxony)
- Uranium mill tailings deposit in the former bellezane open pit mine near Bessines-sur-Gartempe, January 1992
- The two partial ponds of the Culmitzsch uranium mill tailings deposit
- Main dam of the Helmsdorf uranium mill tailings deposit
- Former open pit mine Lichtenberg, Ronneburg (Thuringia), June 1992
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