Radionuclides in plants growing on sludge and water from uranium mine water treatment

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1058-1063

  Carvalho, Fernando P ^a   Oliveira, João M ^a   Malta, Margarida ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Aquatic plants; Grass pasture; Radioactivity; Soil to plant transfer; Uranium mines; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ACID DRAINAGE; ACID MINE DRAINAGE; AQUATIC PLANTS; CATTLE FEEDING; CHEMICAL SLUDGE; CHEMICAL TREATMENTS; DRY WEIGHT; GRASS PASTURE; MINE WATERS; NATURAL WETLAND; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PLANT SPECIES; PLANTS GROWING; RADIOACTIVITY LEVEL; RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATION; SECONDARY TREATMENT; SLUDGE DEWATERING; SLUDGE DRYING; SOIL TO PLANT TRANSFER; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; WATER DISCHARGES;

AGRICULTURE; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); GROUNDWATER; LAKES; MINE FLOODING; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM; RIVERS; URANIUM; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

URANIUM MINES;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BIOAVAILABILITY; DISCHARGE; GRASS; MINE; MINE WASTE; PASTURE; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE; REEDBED; SLUDGE; STREAM; URANIUM ISOTOPE; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

BOS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; POLYGONUM; TYPHA; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 79957709017     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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