Uranium in the Aquatic Environment: Proceedings of the International Conference Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology III and the International Mine Water Association Symposium Freiberg, Germany, 15-21 September 2002

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by  Michael Kinze (auth.)

B. J. Merkel• B. Planer-Friedrich • C. Wolkersdorfer (Eds.)
Uranium in the Aquatic Environment
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B. J. Merkel
B. Planer-Friedrich
C. Wolkersdorfer
(Editors)
Uranium
in the Aquatic
Environment
Proceedings of the
International Conference Uranium Mining
and Hydrogeology 111 and the
International Mine Water Association Symposium
Freiberg, Germany, 15-21 September 2002
With 453 Figures, 151 Tables and a CD-ROM
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Prof. Dr. Broder J. Merkel
Dipl-Geol. Britta Planer-Friedrich
Dr. Christian Wolkersdorfer
Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg
Department of Geology
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Contents
Michael Kinze
Dose Limitsand Maximum Concentration Limits (MCL's) for Radionuclides
Implication on Remediation ofUranium Mining and Milling Facilities in Saxony,
Germany .................................................................................................................. l
Alexander T. Jakubick, Rene Kahnt
Remediation oriented use of conceptual site models at WISMUT GmbH:
Rehabilitation of the Trünzig tailings management area ......................................... 9
Paul L Y ounger
Deep mine hydrogeology after closure: insights from the UK ............................. 25
Heinrich Reincke, Stephanie Hurst, Petra Schneider
Strategy Concept Elbe ........................................................................................... 41
Gavin M. Mudd
Environmental hydrogeology of in situ leach uranium mining in Australia ......... .49
Henk Coetzee, Peter Wade & Frank Winde
Reliance on existing wetlands for pollution control around the Witwatersrand
gold/uranium mines of South Africa -Are they sufficient? .................................. 59
Gavin K. Gillmore, John Grattan, F. Brian Pyatt, Paul S. Phillips, Gillian Pearce
Radon, water and abandoned metalliferous mines in the UK: Environmental and
Human Health implications ................................................................................... 65
Peter L. Neitzel, Petra Schneider, Helmut Schlumprecht
Physico-chemical surface water conditions of catchments with metallogenic
origin: A contribution to the establishment ofthe EC Water Framework Directive
2000/60/EG in Germany ........................................................................................ 77
Polona Vrecek, Ljudmila Benedik, Urska Repinc, Peter Stegnar, Ivan Gantar
Radionuclides in underground water in an area contaminated with uranium mill
waste ...................................................................................................................... 85
LA. Torgoev, U.G. Aleshyn, H. B. Havenit
Impact ofUranium Mining and Processing on the Environment ofMountainous
areas of Kyrgyzstan ............................................................................................... 93
Zoran Nikic, Jovan Kovacevic, Branislav Radosevic
Uranium content in ground water in Stara Planina Triassie Sediments ................. 99
VI Contents
C.R. Dudgeon, F.R.P.Kalf
Contaminant transport from proposed Jabiluka mine uranium tailings paste
repositories - 10 000 year dispersion and dilution analysis ................................ 10 7
David Read, Karl-Heinz Hellmuth, Juha Kaija, Lasse Ahonen
Natural Uranium Fluxes and their Use in Repository Safety Assessment... ........ ll5
Guido Bracke, Bemd Förster, Herbert Meyer, Gerd Hensel, Götz-Wolfram
Thauer, Thornas Taylor
Long Term Safety ofthe Asse Salt Mine ............................................................ 127
Regina Dashko; Alexey Korotkov
Risk Assessment for Underground Disposal ofRadioactive Wastes in Clay
Strata ................................................................................................................... 133
Thornas Brasser, Ulrich Noseck, Dagmar Schönwiese
Uranium Migration in Argillaceous Sediments as Analogue for Transport
Processes in the Far Field ofRepositories (Heselbach Site, Germany) ............... 139
Francisco Lemos, Terry Sullivan, Kurt Friese, Timothy Ross, Maria Barbosa
Translating natural concentrations and fluxes into safety indicators for radioactive
waste repositories ................................................................................................ 14 7
Stephan Kistinger, Guido Deissmann, Martin Goldsworthy, RalfH. Stollenwerk
Evaluation of the long-term durability of engineered dry covers for mining wastes,
and consideration ofassociated design constraints ............................................. 155
Petra Schneider; Schaffrath, M.; Nindel, K.
Hydrology ofEngineered Covers ofWaste Rock Dumps towards Heavy Rainfall
Phenomena: A Case Study in Uranium Mill Tailings Mitigation ....................... 165
Dieter Rammlmair
Hard pan forrnation on mining residuals ............................................................. 17 3
Zenko Yoshida, Yoshihiro Meguro, Shuichi lso, Jin Ougiyanagi, Osamu Tomioka,
Y ouichi Enokida, Ichiro Yamamoto
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Fluid Leaching (SFL) ofUranium from Solid
Wastes Using HN0 -tributylphosphate (TBP) Complex as a Reactant .............. 183
3
Guido Deissmann, Stefan Thierfeldt, Adrian Bath, Stephan Jefferis
Release behaviour ofradionuclides from contaminated concrete materials ........ l89
Gregory Delecaut, PierreDe Canniere, Lian Wang and Norbert Maes
Solubility of an uranium(IV) amorphous phase under geochemical conditions
representative for the direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel in Boom Clay .......... 197
Contents VII
Ulrich Noseck, Thomas Brasser, Ales Laciok, Mirek Hercik, Frantisek WoHer
Uranium rnigration in argillaceous sediments as analogue for transport processes
in the far field of repositories (Ruprechtov site, Czech Republic) ...................... 207
Klaus-Peter Seiler, Wolfgang Graf, Hans Lang, Reinhard Zapata
Groundwater flow systems and the export of uranium from nuclear waste
repositories to the biosphere ................................................................................ 217
Urho J. Suksi, Kari Rasilainen, Timo Ruskeeniemi, Nuria Marcos, Karl-Heinz
Hellmuth
NaturalU occurrences as a palaeo-hydrogeological indicator-observations from
the Palmottu natural analogue site, Finland ......................................................... 227
Xueshi Lu, Yanxin Wang, Pingan Luo, Xiaobin Li and Xiaoqi Zhang
Calculation of radioactive field in nuclear accident contaminated area from data
acquired in aerial survey ...................................................................................... 23 7
Konstantin Yefimov, V.N. Chemonozhkin, Sergey Dmitriev, Lev Prozorov,
Aleksey Tkachenko
Experimentallarge diameter well in the clays for radioactive waste Repository 247
Jordi Bruno, Lara Duro, Esther Cera and Mireia Grive
Redox processes in uranium deposits-Lessons from Natural Analogue Studies255
Broder Merkel
Flooding of the Königstein uranium mine -Aquifer reactivity versus dilution ... 263
Sabine M. Spiessl, Henning Prommer, Martin Sauter, Chunmiao Zheng
Numerical simulation ofuranium transport in flooded underground mines ........ 273
FrankWinde
Stream pollution by adjacent tailing deposits and fluvial transport of dissolved
uranium -dynamics and mechanisms investigated in rnining areas of Germany,
Southem Africa and Australia ............................................................................. 283
Robert A. Fjeld, John T. Coates, Alan W. Elzerman, and James D. Navratil
Mobilities ofuranium species in sedimentary interbed from the Snake River
Plain ..................................................................................................................... 293
Yanxin Wang, Teng Ma, Leehang Xu
A 3-D numerical modeling ofreactive transport ofU(VI) in shallow
groundwaters: a case study at a uranium mill tailing site in southem China ....... 303
Jan Novak, Jii'i M11Zak
Flooding of the deep uranium mine Hamr I by free water from tailings pond .... 311
VIII Contents
Hana Cermäkova, Jan Novak, Jii'i Ml1Zäk
Application of numerical simulation system on Turonian aquifer remediation
control ................................................................................................................. 319
Andre Grigoriev, Alexei Marchenko
Factors controlling migration and concentration of natural and technogerne
radionuclides in bottom sediments ofthe Bastern Gulf ofFinland, Baltic Sea ... 327
P. G6mez, A. Garral6n, B. Buil and L. Sanchez
Geochemical processes related to uranium mobilisation on groundwaters in a
restored uranium mine ......................................................................................... 333
Christian Ekberg
Uncertainties in Chemical Calculations .............................................................. 343
G. Meinrath, B. Merkel, P. Schneider, B. Delakowitz
The Role ofMetrology and Statistics in Making Geochemical Modeling
Defensible ........................................................................................................... 351
Leopold Vrankar, Goran Turk, Franc Runovc
The Influence of Geostatistical Data on the ReHability of the Meshless Method in
Transport Modeling ............................................................................................. 359
G. Geipel, G. Bernhard, V. Brendler
Complex Formation ofUranium(IV) with Phosphate and Arsenate ................... 369
Maria Betti, Laura Aldave de las Heras, Lorenzo Pema, Fabio Bocci, Tania Huber
Hyphenated techniques for speciation ofUranium and other actinides .............. 377
MarcusAmme
Raman microspectrometric investigations ofU0 alteration products: Natural
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analogues to alpha radiolysis effects ................................................................... 385
Marcus Walter, Thuro Amold, Harald Funke, Tobias Reich, Gert Bernhard
Sorption ofUranium(VI) onto Schwertmannite-EXAFS investigations ........... 395
Harald Zänker, Wolfgang Richter, Gudrun Hüttig, Henry Moll
Colloid-bome Uranium in Mine Waters .............................................................. 399
Silvia Jahn, Michael Paul, DelfBaacke
Contaminant Release and Carbonate Availability ofSulphide-Bearing Waste Rock
derived from Long-term Column Tests ............................................................... 407
Contents IX
Katja Schmeide, Gerhard Geipel, Dietmar Keil, Klaus Jansen, Dirk Praschak, Karl
Heinz Reise, Gert Bernhard
Separation ofuranium from aqueous solution by textile bound calixarenes 000000.417
Evelyn Krawczyk-Bärsch, Thuro Arnold, Nils Schmeißer, Felix Brandt, Dirk
Bosbach and Gert Bernhard
The effect of chlorite dissolution on the sorption behavior ofU(VI) Ooooooooooooooooo.425
Vadim Shakhverdov
Major factors of processes forming uranium ore in exogenetic epigenetic deposits
ofthe Chu-Sarysu Province (Southern Kazakhstan) oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.431
Wemer Lutze, Weiliang Gong, and Ho Eric NuttaU
Microbially mediated reduction and immobilization ofuranium in groundwater437
Arokiasamy Jo Francis
Microbial Transformations ofUranium Complexed with Organic and Inorganic
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Sonja Selenska-Pobell, Katrin Flemming, Tzvetelina Tzvetkova, Johannes Raff,
Michaela Schnorpfeil, Andrea Geißler
Bacterial communities in uranium mining waste piles and their interaction with
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Ho Vandenhove, Mo V an Hees
Phytoextraction for clean-up oflow-level uranium contaminated soil evaluated465
Carsten Brackhage, Eo Gert Dudel
Long-term differences in transfer and accumulation ofpotentially toxic trace
elements and radionuclides in trees on uranium rnining dumps (Erzgebirge,
Germany)ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo471
Alexandru Cecal, Karin Popa, Ioan Caraus, lftimie Craciun
Uranium and thorium uptake on hydrophilic plants ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.479
Holger Dienemann, Carsten Brackhage, Anja Dannecker, Eo Gert Dudel, Joachim
Rotsehe
Soil formation and quality on uranium mining dumps depending on different tree
species under special consideration of selected radionuclide contarnination 0000 0.489
Margarete Kalin, Martin P 0S rnith and Mark Bo Wittrup
Ecosystem restoration incorporating rninerotrophic ecology and Stoneworts that
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X Contents
M. Merroun, C. Hennig, A. Rossberg, T. Reich, R. Nicolai, K-H. Heise, S.
Selenska-Pobell
Characterization ofuranium (VI) complexes formed by different bacteria relevant
to uranium mining waste piles ............................................................................. 505
Alix Günther, Gert Bernhard, Gerhard Geipel, Andre Rossberg, Tobias Reich
Uranium speciation in plants ............................................................................... 513
Gerhard Gramss, Klaus-Dieter Voigt, Hans Bergmann
Mobilization ofhazardous metals by plants growing in soils from uranium
mining ................................................................................................................. 521
Heiko Schönbuchner, Mattbias Leiterer, Bemd Machelett, Hans Bergmann
Mobility and plant availability ofheavy metals in soils ofuranium mining dumps529
Astrid Koban, Gerhard Geipel, Gert Bernhard, Thomas Fanghänel
Complex Formation ofUranium(VI) with Glucose I-Phosphate ........................ 537
Donald R. Metzler, Kenneth E. Karp
Performance report on the operations of a pilot plant for the treatment of
vanadium in ground water-New Rifle UMTRA Site, Rifle, Colorado, USA ... 541
Henk Coetzee, Stephane Chevrel & Francis Cottard
Inter-disciplinary sturlies ofthe impact of gold and uranium mining in the
Witwatersrand Goldfield ..................................................................................... 553
Dirk Mallants, Ludo Diels, Leen Bastiaens, Johan Vos, Hugo Moors, Lian Wang,
N orbert Maes, and Bildegarde Vandenhove
Removal of uranium and arsenic from groundwater using six different reactive
materials: assessment ofremoval efficiency ....................................................... 561
Christoph Klinger, Ulf Jenk, Jochen Schreyer
Processes in passive mine water remediation with zero-valent iron and Iignite as
reactive materials ................................................................................................. 569
C. Noubactep, G. Meinrath, P. Volke, H.-J. Peter, P. Dietrich, B. Merkel
Mechanism ofUranium Fixation by Zero Valent Iron: The Importance ofCo-
precipitation ......................................................................................................... 577
Margarete Kalin, Gunter Kießig, Annette Küchler
Ecological water treatment processes for underground uranium mine water:
Progressafter three years of operating a constructed wetland ............................. 587