Sentences with phrase «uranium mill in»

Previous field research by Bargar's team and collaborators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) at the site of a former uranium mill in Rifle, Colorado, has provided a possible explanation for the longevity of the uranium contamination.

He was replacing a light bulb during the graveyard shift at the now - demolished Atlas uranium mill in Moab, Utah.

A proposal to build the nation's first uranium mill in 25 years has divided opinions between those who see good jobs and those fearful of uranium's history of health impacts

Not exact matches

«It would be really nice to identify these organisms and harness this ability to clean up our messes,» says Lee Kerkhof at Rutgers University in New Jersey, who is studying microbes from an old uranium ore mill in Colorado.

In one recent case, 179 residents (or their survivors) of the old uranium milling town of Uravan, Colo., sued mill owner and operator Union Carbide Corporation for causing various cancers and other illnesses.

Milling that metric ton from McArthur, which is reported to be roughly 20 percent uranium, would then result in 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of yellowcake and 1,765 pounds (800 kilograms) of toxic, radioactive tailings, at best.

A day's drive east, in Cañon City, Colo., a federal health study is investigating the link between sick residents and contamination from the nearby Cotter uranium mill.

Pipkin grew up in Monticello, where a uranium mill operated for 20 years until closing in 1960, leaving a pile of tailings and contamination that became a Superfund clean - up site in 1986.

Near the international boundary where Mongolia and China meet Russia east of Lake Baikal, the operations produced approximately 5,000,000 pounds of uranium in 1995 - along with millions of tons of tailings, waste rock, mine water and mill processing water in the waste streams generated by the uranium recovery technology.

Spain - supported by an abstract for «Remediation of Inactive Uranium Mining and Milling Sites in Spain» from the «European Union International Symposium on Remediation and Restoration of Radioactive - contaminated Sites in Europe,» October 1993 (attached as Appendix C) which describes fully decommissioned mine and mill tailings facilities.

The indoor radon action levels for US homes and schools were adopted in response to the use of radioactive uranium mill tailings sand in construction and soil fill for homes and schools in the western US; recognized in the 1970's as one of the first direct community health risks from the process of uranium mining.

Copy of technical paper by Research Director Paul Robinson on long - term groundwater contamination at two uranium mill tailings sites in New Mexico titled: GROUNDWATER RESTORATION LONG BEYOND CLOSURE AT THE HOMESTAKE - MILAN AND UNITED NUCLEAR - CHURCH ROCK URANIUM MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia Helliuranium mill tailings sites in New Mexico titled: GROUNDWATER RESTORATION LONG BEYOND CLOSURE AT THE HOMESTAKE - MILAN AND UNITED NUCLEAR - CHURCH ROCK URANIUM MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia Helliuranium mill tailings sites in New Mexico titled: GROUNDWATER RESTORATION LONG BEYOND CLOSURE AT THE HOMESTAKE - MILAN AND UNITED NUCLEAR - CHURCH ROCK URANIUM MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia Helling,mill tailings sites in New Mexico titled: GROUNDWATER RESTORATION LONG BEYOND CLOSURE AT THE HOMESTAKE - MILAN AND UNITED NUCLEAR - CHURCH ROCK URANIUM MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia HelliURANIUM MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia HelliURANIUM MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia Helling,MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia HelliUranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia HelliUranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia Helling, et.

Robinson completed his Master Degree in Community and Regional Planning from University of New Mexico with a professional project on planning for reclamation of uranium mine and mill sites in the former East Germany, and has 21 years experience as an environmental analyst specializing in the assessment of mine reclamation technology and programs.

These immense facilities sprawling across the steppe are the most extensive uranium operations in Asia and among the handful of the largest uranium mining and milling sites in the world.

«Remediation of Inactive Uranium Mining and Milling Sites in Spain» from the «European Union International Symposium on Remediation and Restoration of Radioactive - contaminated Sites in Europe,» October 1993

EID News - news release, Elevated radionuclide levels found in cattle grazing near uranium mines & mills, June 17, 1986.

EID Church Rock Sheep Studies, 8/86 — EID News, news release, June 17, 1986, Elevated radionuclide levels found in cattle grazing near Uranium mines and mills; Executive Summary and Recommendations Radionuclide Levels in Cattle Raised Near Uranium Mines and Mills in Northwest New Mexico, Environmental Improvement Division, NM, June 1986; Radionuclide Levels in Sheep and Cattle Grazing Near Uranium Mining and Milling At Church Rock, NM, Dr. Jere B. Millard, Dr. Sandra C. Lapham, and Paul Hahn, NM EID, October 1986.

Despite making great strides in protecting miners» and community health, compensating former miners and their families, and cleaning up uranium mill sites, significant problems stemming from the legacy of uranium development still exist today in the Four Corners Area.

The jump is in the spot market price for uranium oxide, which is also known as «yellowcake,» the form of uranium produced at uranium mills and in situ mines.

Results: A recently published Pacific Northwest National Laboratory study of a naturally bioreduced sediment sample from a former uranium mill tailings site reveals insights that enhance understanding of the long - term persistence of uranium in groundwater.

Water Quality Impacts of Uranium Mining and Milling Activities in the Grants Mineral Belt, New Mexico, Excerpts from Final, EPA 906/9 -75-002; US EPA, Region VI, September 1975.

Ensure full funding for health studies among residents of communities impacted by uranium mining and milling, and restore cuts in existing studies.

Radon and Radon Decay Product Concentrations in New Mexico's Uranium Mining and Milling District, Thomas Buhl, Jere Millard, David Baggett, Sue Trevathan, Radiation Protection Bureau, Environmental Improvement Division, New Mexico Health and Environment Department, Final Report, March 1985.

At the Rifle site, scientists are immobilizing uranium in groundwater resulting from past mill tailing operations by stimulating metal - reducing microorganisms.

«Health Concerns in Uranium Mining and Milling» Victor E. Archer, M.D. Journal of Occupational Health, July 1981.

«Review of the Non-Radiological Contaminants in the Long - Term Management of Uranium Mine and Mill Wastes,» R.T. Pidgeon, School of Physics and Geosciences, Western Australian Institute of Technology; Taken from: «Proceedings Series, Management of Wastes from Uranium Mining and Milling, Proceedings of an International Symposium on Management of Wastes from Uranium Mining and Milling Jointly Organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and held in Albuquerque, May 10 - 14, 1982.»

A team from the University of California - Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, PNNL, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory sequenced nearly 150,000 genes from three microbial communities in samples from a subsurface aquifer at a uranium mill tailings site in Rifle, Colorado.

She grew up in the Colorado Plateau area and her father (now dead, after a nine - year illness) was a mill worker at a uranium mine on the Navajo reservation, where Cummins lived and attended school for nine years.