Representative Conference topics include:

Session I: Uranium Mining

• Prospection
• In-situ leaching
• Active water treatment
• Passive water treatment
• Radon management
• Risk assessment studies

Session II: Phosphate Mining

• Environmental impacts
• Fertilizer production and uranium separation

Session III: Mine closure and remediation processes

• Mine flooding
• Waste rock piles
• Tailings
• Phosphate-based stabiliziation and reactive barriers techniques
• Bioremediation/stabilization
• Long-term monitoring of abandoned uranium mining environments

Session IV: Uranium in Groundwater and in bedrock

• Sorption and migration
• Use of uranium isotopes
• Uranium speciation in water
• Uranium migration in crystalline rock

Session V: Biogeochemistry of uranium

• Bioavailability (food chain)
• Uranium in food
• Microbial biogeochemistry of uranium tailings

Session VI: Environmental behavior

• Uranium in Nuclear Waste Repository
• Environmental Behaviour of Depleted Uranium
• Deposits of depleted uranium
• Environmental Behaviour of Natural Uranium Decay Products
  • Radium
  • Radon and short life daughter products
  • ²¹⁰Pb and ²¹⁰Po
• Uranium in coal: Use of fly ash

Session VII: Modeling

• Thermodynamic data
• Surface complexation
• Kinetically controlled reaction