Re: Uranium mill tailings

[BLHamrick@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/7/99 3:46:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mbrenn@sandia.gov 
writes:

<< Thus, a uranium tailings pile is a complex, heterogeneous system.  
Depending
 on what your mission is, perhaps little or most of the above is relevant.
 Hopefully it is at least informative.  Feel free to contact me if You have
 further questions either through RADSAFE or as indicated below. >>

It was informative.  All I needed was order of magnitude estimates of radium 
content...I recognize their will be enormous variation, but what I'm trying 
to get a feel for is whether another type of mining waste that I'm looking at 
would have hazardous characteristics similar to uranium mine/mill tailings 
covered by UMTRCA from the radiological standpoint.

Barbara Hamrick
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