The Impact of an Abandoned Uranium Mining Area on the Contamination of Agricultural Land in its Surroundings

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Uranium decay daughters from isolated mines: Accumulation and sources

“…This uranium is soluble and mainly encountered in both steps of the sequential extraction. Indeed, the acidsoluble and the reducible fractions are characterized by strong capacities to trap anthropogenic contaminants, even radionuclides (Martin, 1998;Mihalik, 2011;Vandenhove et al 2014). …”