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Abandoned U.S. uranium mines : locations, radiation hazards, reclamation and remediation (with accompanying CD-ROM) / Sabrina Myers, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nuclear materials and disaster research.
- Nuclear Materials and Disaster Research
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abandoned mines--United States.
- Abandoned mines.
- Uranium mines and mining--United States.
- Uranium mines and mining.
- Mines and mineral resources--United States.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, 2015.
- Summary:
- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) defines an abandoned uranium mine (mine) as a named mine or complex developed to extract uranium ore for atomic energy defense-related activities of the United States from 1947 to 1970, as verified by purchase of ore by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) or other means. This book addresses five issues which include the location of defense-related abandoned uranium mines on federal, state, tribal, and private lands; the extent of radiation hazards, other public health and safety threats, and environmental degradation caused, or may have been caused, by t
- Contents:
- Blank Page
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 22, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-63483-069-5
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