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Uranium ISL Mining Activities at the International Atomic Energy Agency.- Uranium mining legacies remediation and renaissance development: an international overview.- Understanding Uranium Migration in Hard Rocks.- Detection of hexavalent uranium with inline and field-portable immunosensors.- Ground water remediation at the Moab, Utah, USA, former uranium-ore processing site.- Dispersion of uranium in the environment by fertilization.- The Potential of Thorium Deposits.- Mining of Uranium in Kazakhstan.- Prediction and a new Method of Exploitation of Gold Deposits with Uranium in the Variscian Molass Conglomerate Basins of Germany.- The Prediction of geodynamic conditions of mining of Elkon uranium field (Eastern Siberia, Russia).- Some approaches to remediation study of the fucoid sandstone in the Straz pod Ralskem site - Nothern Bohemia.- Permeable Reactive Barriers for Treatment of a Groundwater at a Uranium Mine: Laboratory Evaluation of Reactive Materials.- Depressurising of Deep Underground Workings at McArthur River Mine.- Could the calixarenes be a viable solution for radioactive decontamination of mine waters from Romania?.- Treatment of acid drainage in a uranium deposit by means of a passive system.- Uranium fixation by Cladophora spec..- Utilization of auhthonous SRB in uranium mine site remediation.- Elemental Iron (Fe0) for Better Drinking Water in Rural Areas of Developing Countries.- Comparison of three different sorbents for uranium retention from a source water.- Experience gained from the experimental permeable reactive barrier installed on the former uranium mining site.- Risk Assessment of Uranium in Selected Gold Mining Areas in South Africa.- Risk assessment of a landfill for wastes containing naturally occurring radionuclides through infiltration to groundwater.- Integrated Methodology for the Environmental Risk Assessment of an Abandoned Uranium Mining Site.- Modeling the water flow in unsaturated waste rock pile: an important step in the overall closure planning of the first uranium mining site in Brazil.- Developing a 3D data model for geohazard assessment in a former uraniferous mining site.- Uranium and heavy metals in Phosphate Fertilizers.- Uranium accumulation in sandy soil in an arid region due to agricultural activities.- Uranium in anthropogenic Lakes of the New Central German Lake District.- Closure of Underground Mine of Lincang Uranium Mine.- Small scale uranium mine remediation in northern Australia.- The remediation of a uranium mining and milling site in Slovenia.- Feasibility Study on Crust Formation as CO2 Sink in Uranium and Lignite Post-Mining Sites.- Modelling and Assessment of Radionuclides Differential Transport in Groundwater.- Infiltration and Contaminant-Transport Modeling for a Uranium Mill Tailings-Disposal Facility.- Use of Na-Ferrate (VI) to prevent acid drainage from uranium mill tailings.- Chemical Behaviour of Uranium in the Tailings Material of Schneckenstein (Germany).- Impacts of Uranium Mining on Environment of Fergana Valley in Central Asia.- The Rum Jungle U-Cu Project: A Critical Evaluation of Environmental Monitoring and Rehabilitation Success.- Potential of Brassica juncea and Helianthus annuus in phytoremediation for uranium.- Uranium uptake and accumulation in Phragmites australis Trin. ex Steud. depending on phosphorus availability, litter contamination and ecotype.- Applications of NH4Cl and citrate: Keys to acceptable phytoextraction techniques?.- Ecological Solutions of Contaminated Environment Remediation from Uranium Mining Activities in Romania.- Assessmentof rehabilitated uranium mine sites, Australia.- Radiological Assessment of the rehabilitated Nabarlek Uranium Mine, Northern Territory, Australia.- Groundwater-climate relationships, Ranger uranium mine, Australia: 1. Time series statistical analyses.- Groundwater-climate relationships, Ranger uranium mine, Australia: 2. Validation of unsaturated flow modelling.- Groundwater-climate relationships, Ranger uranium mine, Australia: 3. Predicting climate change impacts.- Environmental Impacts from the North Cave Hills Abandoned Uranium Mines, South Dakota.- Radioactivity in soils and horticulture products near uranium mining sites.- Monitoring and remediation of the legacy sites of uranium mining in Central Asia.- Valorification of the natural capital from the former uraniferous mining area situated in the Romanian Carpathians. Study Case: The Natural Park of Gradistea de Munte – Cioclovina.- From remediation to long-term monitoring - The concept of key monitoring points at WISMUT.- Official supervision measurements for remediation and monitoring of Wismut GmbH in Saxony.- Underground in-situ mine water treatment in a flooded uranium mine at the WISMUT Königstein site - motivation, activities and outlook.- Remediation effects of the WISMUT project to surface waters in the Elbe watershed: An overview.- Radiological hazards from uranium mining.- Radiological evaluation of elevated uranium concentration in ground and surface waters encountered at uranium ore mining and processing sites.- Radiologically Relevant Radionuclide Depositions in the Agriculturally Used Parts of the Mulde River Floodplains.- Radiological Investigation and Ecological Risk of South Coastal Section of Issyk-Kul Lake.- Natural occurring uranium nanoparticles and the implication in bioremediation ofsurface mine waters.- Treatment of historical uranium contaminated radioactive waste at necsa for disposal.- Peat deposits as natural uranium filters? - First results from a case study in a dolomitic gold mining area of South Africa.- Uranium sorption and desorption behavior on bentonite.- Uranium(VI) sorption on montmorillonite and bentonite: Prediction and experiments.- Which factors influence the immobilization of uranium in soils and sediments?.- Determination of Uranium source term in a Polluted Site: a multitechnique study.- Peculiarities of radionuclide distribution within rock destruction zones (by the example of the objects at the Semipalatinsk Test Site).- Complexation of Uranium by Sulfur and Nitrogen Containing Model Ligands in Aqueous Solution.- Characterizing As, Cu, Fe and U Solubilization by Natural Waters.- Flow in a brine-affected aquifer at a uranium mill tailings site near Moab, Utah, USA.- Problems of the hydrogeological monitoring of objects of the Prydneprovsk Chemical Plant (Dneprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine).- Characterization of U(VI) behaviour in the Ruprechtov site (CZ).- Spectroscopic study of the uranium(IV) complexation by organic model ligands in aqueous solution.- Uranium Speciation - from mineral phases to mineral waters.- Coordination of U(IV) and U(VI) sulfate hydrate in aqueous solution.- Uranium partitioning during water treatment processes.- Speciation of Uranium in a Polluted Site: a TRLFS study.- Uranium(VI) Sulfate Complexation as a Function of Temperature and Ionic Strength Studied by TRLFS.- Preliminary study of interaction between tailing and the hydrologic cycle at a uranium mine near Tatanagar, India.- The distribution of uranium in groundwater in the Bushmanland and Namaqualand areas, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.- Uranium minerals of Bukulja mountain controls on storage reservoir water.- Migration of uranium in groundwater in three naturally occurring anomalous areas in South Africa.- Uranium transfer around volcanic-associated uranium deposit.- Selective Retention of U(VI) and U(IV) Chemical Species on Eichrom Resins: DGA, TEVA and UTEVA.- The biogeochemistry of uranium in natural-technogenic provinces of the Issik-Kul.- Radioactivity in soils and horticulture products near uranium mining sites.- Mechanisms and capacity of sun driven uranium removal in natural and nature-like constructed wetlands.- Extracellular defence reactions of rape cells caused by uranium exposure.- Microscopic and spectroscopic investigation of U(VI) interaction with monocellular green algae.- Interactions of Paenibacillus sp. and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius strains with U(VI).- Comparison of elimination capacity of uranium from the water pathway between periphytic algae, submerse macrophytes and helophytes (emerse vascular plants).- Microbial transformations of uranium in wastes and implication on its mobility.- Uranium biomineralization by uranium mining waste isolates: a multidisciplinary approach study.- Uranyl reduction by Geobacter sulfurreducens in the presence or absence of iron.- Characterization of the microbial diversity in the abandoned uranium mine Königstein.- Biogeochemical changes induced by uranyl nitrate in a uranium waste pile.- Comparative investigation of the interaction of uranium with lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan.- Environmental implications of Mn(II)-reacted biogenic UO2.- The effect of temperature on the speciation of U(VI) in sulfate solutions.- Safety functions derived from geochemistry for safety analysis of final disposal of high-level radioactive waste.- Fault-relatedbarriers for uranium transport.- Uranium glasses: the experimental leaching compared to the long-term natural corrosion.- Radiochemical methods analysis of U and Th: metrological and geochemical applications.- Characterization of the interactions between uranium and colloids in soil by on-line fractionation multi-detection methods.- Towards a more safe environment: Disposability of uranium by some clay sediments in Egypt.- The Importance of Organic Colloids for the Transport of Uranium and other Decay Chain Elements in a Boreal Stream Network.- Assessments and decreasing of risks and damages from outbursts of Tien-Shan high mountains lakes.- Uranium-isotopic method using to determine sources of moraine-glacial lakes feeding and assess of its outburst danger.- Impact of uranium mines water treatment on uranium and radium behaviour.- Changes of radium concentration in discharge waters from coal mines in Poland as a result of mitigation.- Radium transfer from solid into liquid phase – a theoretical approach to its behaviour in aquifers.- Distribution of Ra-226 downstream a uranium mining site.- Uranium and its decay products in radioactive anomalies of the oxidized brown coals (the western part of the Kansko-Achinsk brown coal basin).- Assessment of radiological impact of mining and processing low grade uranium ores on the environment and monitoring strategies.- Method of reducing radon levels in buildings.- Water tight Radon / Thoron probs and monitors without influence of high humidity, air pressure and temperature.- Continuous Measurement of geo-chemical parameters in aggressive environment.- Thermodynamical Data of uranyl carbonate complexes from Absorption Spectroscopy.- Digital elevation model created by airborne laser scanning in the field of mines areas.-Numerical simulation of groundwater flow and particle tracking around the proposed Uranium mine site, Andhra Pradesh, India.- Assessment of Uranyl Sorption Constants on Ferrihydrite – Comparison of Model Derived Constants and Updates to the Diffuse Layer Model Database.- Surface complexation of U(VI) by Fe and Mn (hydr)oxides.- Differential equations of a U-Ra-Pb system accounting for a diffusion of components.- The use of kinetic modeling as a tool in the understanding of the geochemical processes at a uranium mine site.- Origin and oxidation processes of the Oklo uranium ore, Gabon: Reactive transport modelling.- Study of uranium sorption by bentonite.