Geochemistry of natural wetlands in former uranium milling sites (eastern Germany) and implications for uranium retention
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The geochemistry of natural wetlands in former uranium milling sites (Eastern Germany) and its implications for uranium retention
Discharge from former uranium mining and milling areas is world wide a source of elevated uranium contents in wetlands. The efficiency of organic rich wetland environments for entrapment and accumulation of uranium was assessed in this work using hydrogeochemical field studies of natural small-sized wetlands in Thuringia and Saxony, Eastern Germany. The objective was to estimate, if artificial ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geochemistry
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0009-2819
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemer.2007.12.003