Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1
A Short History of Uranium
(Fathi Habashi, Department of Mining, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada)

Chapter 2
The Legacy of Uranium Mining: Farming on Non-remediable Metalliferous Soils?
(Gerhard Gramss and Klaus-Dieter Voigt, Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany, and others)

Chapter 3
Environmental and Health Effects of Depleted Uranium
(Svetlana Zunic and Ljubisa Rakic, University of Defense in Belgrade, Medical Faculty of the Military Medical Academy; Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia, and others)

Chapter 4
Matrix Influence on Low Uranium Concentration Determination
(Alena Zavadilova, Barbora Drtinova, Ivan Hupka, Dept. of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Brehova, Prague, Czech Republic)

Chapter 5
Hydrometallurgy of Phosphate Rock and the Recovery of Uranium
(Fathi Habashi, Department of Mining, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada)

Chapter 6
Uranium in the Environment and in the Population of the Czech Republic
(Irena Malátová, Věra Bečková, Jiří Hůlka, Lukáš Kotík, Ladislav Tomášek, National Radiation Protection Institute (SÚRO,v.v.i.), Bartoškova, Praha, Czech Republic)

Chapter 7
Uranium Spatio-Temporal Variability In Groundwater – An Environmental Risk Assessment Case Study
(Albuquerque MTD, Antunes IMHR, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, Castelo Branco, Portugal)

Chapter 8
Uranium Isotopes in Ground and Surface Waters of Barreiro, Araxá, Minas Gerais State, Brazil
(Luis Henrique Mancini and Daniel Marcos Bonotto, Departamento de Petrologia e Metalogenia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil)

Chapter 9
Thermodynamic Properties of Uranium Minerals
(Alexander V. Knyazev and Marina E. Manyakina, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia)

Chapter 10
Microbial Uranium Resistance and Remediation
(Xiangkai Li, Huawen Han, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China)

Chapter 11
A New Thin-Film Approach to Making Nuclear Fuel Research Accessible
(A M Adamska, W Liu, J Sutcliffe, E Lawrence Bright, Interface Analysis Centre, School of Physics, University of Bristol, UK)

Index