Accepted papers

The following submitted contributions are accepted as papers (oral and poster presentations) at the different conference topics (abstracts can be viewed via click on the pdf-icon). They are organised by first author surname in alphabetical order in several sessions...

Session I: Uranium Mining		top
Prospection
	Elkhan A. Mamedov (Baku State University, Azerbaijan): Prediction and a new Method of Exploitation of Gold Deposits with Uranium in the Variscian Molass Conglomerate Basins of Germany.
	Gulzhan S. Ospanova et al. (Kazakh National Technical University, Kazakhstan): Mining of Uranium in Kazakhstan.
	Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera (BGR, Germany): The Potential of Thorium Deposits.
	Tatarinov V.N et al. (VNIPI Promtechnology, Russia): The Prediction of geodynamic conditions of mining of Elkon uranium field (Eastern Siberia, Russia).
In-situ leaching
	Pavel Franta et al. (Nuclear Research Institute Řež plc, Czech Republic): Some approaches to remediation study of the fucoid sandstone in the Stráž pod Ralskem site – Northern Bohemia.
	Jan Slezak (International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria): Uranium ISL Mining Activities at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Active water treatment
	David Blowes et al. (University of Waterloo, Canada ): Depressurising of Deep Underground Workings at McArthur River Mine.
	Houmao Liu et al. (HCItasca Denver, Inc., Denver, Colorado, USA): Depressurising of Deep Underground Workings at McArthur River Mine.
	Ioana-Carmen Popescu et al. (ICPMRR, Romania): Could calixarenes be a viable solution for radioactive decontamination of mine waters from Romania?
Passive water treatment
	Mihaly Csõvári et al. (Mecsekerc Rt, Hungary): Experience gained from the experimental permeable reactive barrier installed on the former uranium mining site (Hungary).
	Claudia Dienemann et al. (TU Dresden, Germany): Uranium fixation by Cladophora spec.
	Stoyan Groudev et al. (University of Mining and Geology “Saint Ivan Rilski”, Bulgaria): Treatment of Acid Drainage in a Uranium Deposit by Means of a Passive System.
	Martin Hoffmann et al. (Groundwater research institute GmbH Dresden, Germany): Utilization of autochthonous sulphate-reducing bacteria in uranium mine site remediation.
	Chicgoua Noubactep et al. (Universität Göttingen, Germany): Metallic Iron (Fe0) for Better Drinking Water in Rural Areas of Developing Countries.
	Karin Popa (‘Al.I. Cuza’ University, Romania): Comparison of three different sorbents for uranium retention from a source water.
Radon management
	Rashid Khaydarov et al. (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Uzbekistan): Method of Reducing Radon Levels in Buildings.
Risk assessment studies
	Maria de Lurdes Dinis et al. (CIGAR, Portugal): Integrated Methodology for the Environmental Risk Assessment of an Abandoned Uranium Mining Site.
	Anne Delos et al. (Amphos XXI Consulting, S.L., Spain): Risk assessment of a landfill for wastes containing naturally occurring radionuclides through infiltration to groundwater.
	Mariza Franklin et al. (Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission, Brazil): Modeling the water flow in unsaturated waste rock pile: an important step in the overall closure planning of the first uranium mining site in Brazil.
	Ovidiu Sorin Mihai et al. (National Institute for Metals and Radioactive Resources, Romania): Developing a 3D data model for geohazard assessment in a former uraniferous mining site.
	Stefan Ritzel et al. (Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt und Geologie, Germany): GIS supported pre-assessment of radioactively contaminated areas in the agriculturally used parts of the Mulde River floodplains.
	Peter Wade et al. (Council for Geoscience, South Africa): Risk Assessment of Uranium in Selected Gold Mining Areas in South Africa.
Session II: Phosphate Mining		top
Environmental impacts
	Ewald Schnug (Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants, Germany): Loads and fate of fertilizer derived uranium.
Fertilizer production and uranium separation
	Ashraf E.M. Khater (Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt): Uranium and heavy metals in phosphate fertilizers: concentrations and environmental consequences.
	Ashraf E.M. Khater et al. (Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt): Uranium accumulation in sandy soil in an arid region due to agricultural activities.
Session III: Mine closure and remediation processes		top
Mine flooding
	Wolfgang Czegka et al. (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Germany): Uranium in anthropogenic lakes of the new central German lake district (Leipziger Neuseenland).
	Xu Lechang (Beijing Institute of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, China): Closure of Lincang Underground Uranium Mine in China.
	Bedrich Michalek et al. (DIAMO state enterprise, Czech Republic): Research on Mine Waters of Closed and Abandoned Uranium Mines.
Waste rock piles
	Maria de Lurdes Dinis et al. (CIGAR, Portugal): Modelling and Assessment of Radionuclides Differential Transport in Groundwater.
	Michael Paul et al. (Wismut GmbH, Germany): The remediation of a uranium mining and milling site in Slovenia.
	Petra Schneideret al. (C&E Consulting und Engineering GmbH, Germany): Feasibility Study for Crust Formation as CO 2 Sink in Uranium and Brown Coal Post-Mining Sites.
	Peter Waggitt et al. (IAEA, Austria): Small Scale Uranium Mine Remdiation in Northern Australia
Tailings
	Ryan T. Jakubowski et al. (MWH Americas, Inc., Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA): Infiltration and Contaminant-Transport Modeling for a Uranium Mill Tailings-Disposal Facility.
	Donald R. Metzleret al. (U.S. Department of Energy, USA): An Effectiveness Assessment of Current and Proposed Ground Water Remediation at the Moab, Utah USA Uranium Processing Site .
	Horst Monken- Fernandes et al. (IAEA, Austria): Use of Na-Ferrate (VI) to prevent acid drainage from uranium mill tailings based on the application of NA-Ferrate (VI).
	Gavin M. Mudd et al. (Monash University, Australia): The Rum Jungle U-Cu Project : A Critical Evaluation of Environmental Monitoring and Rehabilitation Success.
	Taoufik Naamoun (Department of Geology, Tunisia): Chemical Behaviour of Uranium in the Tailings Material of Schneckenstein (Germany).
	Isakbek Torgoev et al. (Institute of Physics and Rock Mechanics, Russia): Impacts of Uranium Mining on the Environment of Fergana Valley in Central Asia.
Bioremediation/stabilization
	Carsten Brackhage et al. (TU Dresden, Germany): Uranium uptake and accumulation in Phragmites australis Trin. ex Steud. depending on phosphorus availability, litter contamination and ecotype.
	Gerhard Gramss et al. (Friedrich-Schiller-University,Germany): Continuous supply of citric acid and ammonium traces to uranium mine dump soil: A path to acceptable phytoextraction techniques?
	Nicoleta Groza (R&D National Institute for Metals and Radioactive Resources, Romania): Ecological Solutions of Contaminated Environment Remediation from Uranium Mining Activities in Romania.
	Beate Huhle (Universität Bayreuth, Germany): Potential of Brassica juncea and Helianthus annuus in phytoremediation for uranium.
	Peter Waggitt (IAEA, Austria): Uranium Mining Legacies Remediation and Renaissance Development: An International Overview.
Long-term monitoring of abandoned uranium mining environments
	Andreas Bollhöfer et al. (Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist (eriss), Australia): Radiological Assessment of the rehabilitated Nabarlek Uranium Mine, Northern Territory, Australia.
	Fernando P. Carvalho et al. (Nuclear and Technological Institute, Portugal): Radionuclides in underground waters at the former uranium and radium mining region of Sabugal, Portugal.
	Bruno Chareyron (CRIIRAD, France): Radiological hazards from uranium mining.
	Thomas Heinrich et al. (Staatliche Umweltbetriebsgesellschaft, Germany): State supervision to the monitoring program of the Wismut GmbH in the free state of Saxony.
	Alex Jakubick et al. (UMREG Group): Monitoring and Preparation of the Uranium Mining Legacies in Central Asia.
	Ulf Jenk et al. (Wismut GmbH , Germany): Underground In situ mine water treatment in a flooded uranium mine at the WISMUT site Königstein - motivation, activities and perspective.
	Elke Kreyßig (Wismut GmbH , Germany): From remediation to long-term monitoring: The concept of key monitoring points at WISMUT.
	Bernd Lottermoser (James Cook University, Australia): Assessment of rehabilitated uranium mine sites, Australia.
	Martin Mkandawire et al. (Dresden University of Technology, Germany): Natural occurring uranium nanoparticles and the implication in bioremediation of surface mine waters.
	Gavin M. Mudd et al: (Monash University, Australia): Groundwater-Climate Relationships, Ranger Uranium Mine, Australia: 1 – Time Series Statistical Analyses.
	Gavin M. Mudd et al: (Monash University, Australia): Groundwater-Climate Relationships, Ranger Uranium Mine, Australia: 2 – Validation of Unsaturated Flow Modelling.
	Gavin M. Mudd et al: (Monash University, Australia): Groundwater-Climate Relationships, Ranger Uranium Mine, Australia: 3 – Predicting Climate Change Impacts.
	Dan Bujor Nica et al. (Research and Development National Institute for Metals and Radioactive Resources, Romania): Valorification of the natural capital from the former uraniferous mining areal situated in the Romanian Carpathians. Study case: The Natural Parc of Gradistea de Munte - Cioclovina.
	Michael Paul et al. (Wismut GmbH , Germany): Remediation effects of the WISMUT project to ground and surface waters in the Elbe watershed: A synopsis.
	Johannes Richter et al. (Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt und Geologie, Germany): Radiologically relevant radionuclide depositions in the agriculturally used parts of the Mulde River floodplains.
	Peter Schmidt et al. (Wismut GmbH , Germany): Radiological assessment of elevated uranium concentrations in groundwater and surface waters.
	James Stone (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA): Environmental Impacts from the North Cave Hills Abandoned Uranium Mines, South Dakota.
	Azamat Tynybekov et al. (Kyrgyz Russian Slavonic University): Radiological risks from uranium tailing.
	J.J. Badenhorst and W Meyer (Nuclear Waste Research, South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, South Africa): Treatment of historical uranium contaminated radioactive waste at necsa for disposal .
Session IV: Uranium in Groundwater and in bedrock		top
Sorption and migration
	Samer Bachmaf et al. (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany): Uranium(VI) sorption to bentonite.
	Michaël Descostes et al. (CEA Saclay DEN-DANS/DPC/SECR, France): Determination of Uranium source term in a Polluted Site: a multitechnique study.
	Ella Gorbunova (Russian Academy of Science, Russia): Peculiarities of radionuclide distribution within rock destruction zones (by the example of the objects at the Semipalatinsk Test Site).
	Claudia Joseph et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Complexation of Uranium(VI) by Sulfur and Nitrogen Containing Model Ligands in Aqueous Solution.
	Cordula Nebelung et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Uranium(VI) sorption on montmorillonite and bentonite: Prediction and experiments.
	Chicgoua Noubactep et al. (Universität Göttingen, Germany): Characterizing As, Cu and U Solubilization Under Natural Near Oxic Conditions.
	David Peterson et al. (S.M. Stoller Corporation, USA): Contaminant Transport in a Brine-Affected Aquifer at a Uranium Mill Tailings Site near Moab, Utah, USA.
	Angelika Schöner et al. (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany): Which factors influence the immobilization of uranium in soils and sediments?
	Oleksandr Skalskyy et al. (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): Problems of the gydrogeological monitoring of objects of the Prydneprovsk Chemical Plant (Dneprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine).
	Dusan Vopálka et al. (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic): Characterization of U(VI) behaviour in the Ruprechtov site.
	Frank Winde (North West University, South Africa): Peat deposits as natural uranium filters? - First results from a case study in a dolomitic gold mining area of South Africa.
Uranium speciation in water
	Diane Blake et al. (Tulane University , USA ): Detection of hexavalent uranium with inline and field-portable immunosensors.
	Michaël Descostes et al. (CEA Saclay DEN-DANS/DPC/SECR, France): Speciation of Uranium in a Polluted Site: a TRLFS study.
	Gerhard Geipel et al. (Research Center Dresden Rossendorf, Germany): Uranium Speciation - from mineral phases to mineral waters.
	Christoph Hennig (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Speciation and coordination of U(VI) and U(IV) sulfate in aqueous solution.
	Ashraf E.M. Khater (Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt): Uranium partitioning during water treatment processes .
	Zoran Nikic et al. (University of Belgrade, Serbia): Uranium Minerals of Bukulja Mountain controls on Storage Reservoir Water.
	Katja Schmeide et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Spectroscopic Study of the Uranium(IV) Complexation by Organic Model Ligands in Aqueous Solution.
	S. K. Sharma (Geological Research Institute, India): Preliminary Study of Interaction between Tailing and the Hydrologic Cycle at a Uranium Mine near Tatanagar, India.
	Nicolene van Wyk et al. (Council for Geoscience, South Africa): The distribution of uranium in groundwater in the Bushmanland and Namaqualand areas, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
	Dusan Vopálka et al. (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic): Uranium(VI) Sulfate Complexation as a Function of Temperature and Ionic Strength Studied by TRLFS.
Uranium migration in crystalline rock
	Alexandru Cecal et al. (“Al.I.Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania): Separation of U(VI) and U(IV) chemical Species on the DGA-,TEVA- and UTEVA Eichrom Resins.
	Henk Coetzee et al. (Council for Geoscience, South Africa): Migration of uranium in groundwater in three naturally occurring anomalous areas in South Africa.
	W. Eberhard Falck et al. (Joint Research Centre, European Commission, The Netherlands): Understanding Uranium Migration in Hard-Rocks.
	Antje Wittenberg et al. (BGR, Germany): Uranium transfer around volcanic-associated uranium deposit.
Session V: Biogeochemistry of uranium		top
Bioavailability (food chain)
	Fernando P. Carvalho et al. (Nuclear and Technological Institute, Portugal): Radioactivity in soils and horticulture products near uranium mining sites.
	Bekmamat Djenbaev et al. (Institute of Biology & Pedology, NAS of KR, Kyrghyz Republic): The Biogeochemistry of uranium in natural-technogenic provinces of the Issik-Kul.
	Gert E. Dudel et al. (TU Dresden, Germany): Mechanisms and capacity of sun driven uranium removal in natural and nature-like constructed wetlands.
	Gert E. Dudel et al. (TU Dresden, Germany): Comparison of elimination capacity of uranium from the water pathway between periphytic algae, submerse macrophytes and helophytes (emerse vascular plants).
	Alix Günther et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Microscopic and spectroscopic investigation of the U(VI) interaction with monocellular green algae.
	Thomas Reitz et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Interactions of Paenibacillus sp. JG-TB8 and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius with U(VI): spectroscopic and microscopic studies.
	Katrin Viehweger et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Extracellular defence reactions of rape cells caused by uranium exposure.
Uranium in food
	Yaduvendra Agrawal (Nirma University of Science and Technology, India): Biogeochemistry of Uranium - Speciation, Preconcentration and Recovery
Microbial biogeochemistry of uranium tailings
	Astrid Barkleit et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Comparative investigation of the interaction of uranium with lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan.
	Linda Figueroa et al. (Colorado School of Mines, USA): The Role of Dissolved and Particulate Organic Carbon in Biostimulated Uranium Attenuation.
	Arokiasamy J. Francis (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA): Mechanisms of Microbial Transformations of Uranium in Wastes and its Implication on Mobility.
	Mohamed L. Merroun et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Uranium biomineralization by uranium mining waste isolates: a multidisciplinary approach study.
	Jana Seifert et al.(TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany): Characterisation of the microbial diversity in the abandoned uranium mine Königstein.
	Sonja Selenska-Pobell et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Biogeochemical changes induced by uranyl nitrate in a uranium waste pile.
	Jonathan Sharp et al. (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland): Systematic investigation of the product of microbial U(VI) reduction by various microorganisms.
	Harish Veeramani et al. (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland): Effect of Mn(II) on the oxidative dissolution of biogenic UO2.
Session VI: Environmental behavior		top
Uranium in Nuclear Waste Repository
	Guido Bracke et al. (Institut für Sicherheitstechnologie (GRS), Germany): Safety functions derived from geochemistry for assessment of final disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
	Jörg Hammer et al. (BGR, Germany): Fault-related barriers for uranium transport.
	Radek Procházka et al. (Charles University, Czech Republic): Uranium glasses: the experimental leaching compared to the long-term natural corrosion.
	Linfeng Rao (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA): Temperature Effect on the Complexation of Uranium(VI) with Sulfate and Fluoride Anions.
Environmental Behaviour of Depleted Uranium
	Samy Mohamed Abd-Allah et al. (King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia): Towards a more safe environment: (4) Disposability of uranium by some clay sediments in Egypt.
	Céline Claveranne-Lamolère (LCABIE-IPREM-UMR 5234, France): Characterization of the interactions between uranium and colloids in soil by on-line fractionation multi-detection methods.
	Said Fakhi et al. (Laboratoire de Radiochimie (LRC), Maroc): Radiochemical methods analysis of U, Th and Ra: metrological and geochemical applications.
	Fredrik Lidman et al. (Umeå University, Sweden): The Importance of Organic Colloids for the Transport of Uranium and other Decay Chain Elements in a Boreal Stream Network.
	Alexander Valyaev et al. (Nuclear Safety Institute, RAS, Russia): Assessments and decreasing of risks and damages from outbursts of Tien-Shan high mountains lakes.
	Alexander Valyaev et al. (Nuclear Safety Institute, RAS, Russia): Uranium-isotopic method using to determine sources of moraine-glacial lakes feeding and assess of its outburst danger.
Environmental Behaviour of Natural Uranium Decay Products:Radium
	Charlotte Cazala et al. (IRSN/DEI/SARG/BRN BP17, France): Impact of uranium mines water treatment on the uranium and radium behaviour.
	Stanislaw Chałupnik et al. (Central Mining Institute, Poland): Changes of radium concentration in discharge waters from coal mines in Poland as a result of mitigation.
	Stanislaw Chałupnik et al. (Central Mining Institute, Poland): Radium transfer from solid into liquid phase – a theoretical approach to its behaviour in aquifers.
	Claudia Dienemann et al. (TU Dresden, Germany): Distribution of Ra-226 downstream a uranium mining site.
	Mikhail Melgunov et al. (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia): Uranium and its decay products in radioactive anomalies of oxidized brown coals (western part of Kansko-Achinsk brown coal basin).
Environmental Behaviour of Natural Uranium Decay Products:Radon and short life daughter products
	Amir Hasan Khan et al. (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India): Assessment of Radiological Impact of Mining and Processing Low Grade Uranium Ores on the Environment and Monitoring Strategies.
	Thomas Streil et al. (SARAD GmbH, Germany): Continuous Measurement of geo-chemical parameters in aggressive environment.
	Thomas Streil et al. (SARAD GmbH, Germany): Water tight Radon / Thoron probs and monitors without influence of high humidity, air pressure and temperature.
Session VII: Modeling		top
Thermodynamic data
	Christian Götz et al. (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany): Thermodynamical Data of uranyl carbonate complexes from Absorption Spectroscopy.
Surface complexation
	Lakshmanan Elango (Anna University, India): Numerical simulation of groundwater flow and particle tracking around the proposed Uranium mine site, Andhra Pradesh, India.
	Sven Jany (Milan Flug GmbH, Germany): Digital elevation model created by airborne laser scanning in the field of mines areas.
	John Mahoney (MWH Americas, Inc, USA): Assessment of Uranyl Sorption Constants – Comparison of Model Derived Constants and Updates
	David M. Sherman (University of Bristol, United Kingdom): Surface complexation of U(VI) by Fe and Mn (hydr)oxides
Kinetically controlled reaction
	Sergej Brandt et al. (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia): Differential equations of a U-Ra-Pb system accounting for a diffusion of components.
	Mariza Franklin et al. (Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission, Brazil): The use of kinetic modeling as a tool in the understanding of the geochemical processes at a uranium mine site.
	Jeannet A. Meima et al. (BGR, Germany): Reactive transport modeling of natural attenuation processes in sulfide-bearing mine tailings.
	Joaquin Salas et al. (AmphosXXI Consulting S.L., Spain): Origin and oxidation processes of the Oklo uranium ore, Gabon.: Reactive transport modelling.
	Borys P. Zlobenko et al. (National Academy of Sciences and Ministry for Emergency Situations of Ukraine): Study of uranium sorption by bentonite.