Radioactive Dust Pollution Around The Dumps Of The Uranium Deposit

Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
A. Subbotin
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Jan 1, 2005

Abstract

During developing the Ingulska mine at the Mi-churinske uranium deposit in the central part of Ukraine the radioactive rock dumps have been piled. A height of dumps reaches to 15-25m. They occupy a large territory and can be a source of covering with radioactive dust the area around the Ingulska mine. Uranium content exceeds 0,01% in all dump rocks samples while in the dust fraction samples it ranges from 0,01 to 0,06%. Uranium content in road dust at the dump?s foot reaches 0,137%. A new (for Ukraine) method of f-radiography of tree and bush leaves sampled at the territory about 100km2 has been used. It is based on fission of 235U nucleuses due to heat neutron influence in a nuclear reactor and on following study of the Lausan films with tracks drawn by the fractures of these nucleuses. Uranium content of the dif-fusion-disseminated dust type is (0.9-22.2)?10-6% while in the individual particles it can be considered much more because of burned holes in Lavsan above them. The dust content with uranium in Kirovograd reaches to 20-50 part/cm2 while near the dumps it ranges from 100 part/cm2 to 300 part/cm2 in the radius of 1,5-2km from the Ingulska mine.
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APA: A. Subbotin  (2005)  Radioactive Dust Pollution Around The Dumps Of The Uranium Deposit

MLA: A. Subbotin Radioactive Dust Pollution Around The Dumps Of The Uranium Deposit. Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, 2005.

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