Submission of papers and posters

* Posters should fit 1.20 m height to 0.90 m width. Instruction to prepare a poster you will find here. ( 70 kBytes)

* Talks will be presented in 20 minutes oral presentations plus 5 minutes for discussion. Official conference language will be English. More information for speakers you will find here.( 85 kByte)

* The conference proceedings with 6 to 10 pages (important even page number!!!) for each paper (talks and posters) will be available with the congress and on the world wide web.

* With notification of acceptance the authors will receive detailed instruction on how to submit the papers. Please DO NOT submit full papers unrequested. The paper has to fit the publisher´s format requirements. Here you can download the .dot file, which you have to use for your paper´s layout.
Deadline for submission (camera ready) is 30.05.08 at the latest, early submission is strongly encouraged.

The paper / poster has to fit in one of the following topics:

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

• Mine flooding
• Waste rock piles
• Tailings
• Phosphate-based stabiliziation and reactive barriers techniques
• Phytoremidiation/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