Re: GEOLOGISTS LEARNING URANIUM CONTAINMENT FROM NATURE

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: Susan Gawarecki <loc@ICX.NET>

An: RADSAFE <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Mittwoch, 14. März 2001 20:42

Betreff: GEOLOGISTS LEARNING URANIUM CONTAINMENT FROM NATURE





>GEOLOGISTS LEARNING URANIUM CONTAINMENT FROM NATURE

>

>BLACKSBURG, Virginia, March 13, 2001 (ENS) - One of the richest

>uranium deposits in the U.S. lies beneath Coles Hill in rural Virginia -

>forming a perfect natural laboratory for studying radioactive waste

>containment.

>

>"You would expect ground water in this type of natural system to

>have carried the uranium away from the site into the surrounding

>environment, but we don't see that," said Virginia Tech Ph.D. student

>Jim Jerden. "We think we can learn something from this site that can

>be applied to existing contaminated sites and nuclear waste

>repositories."

>





Didn't we hear in the news yesterday, that one of the findings of a UN-group

in Kosovo was, that the uranium-penetrators posed no direct radiation

problem, but could "leak" to groundwater, contaminating it and  cause by

this way health concern????



Franz







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