Uranium mining and processing - Impacts to humans and the environment : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Uranium mining and processing - Impacts to humans and the environment / Oeko-Institut e.V.
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| 説明 | Mining and, in particular, uranium mining entails huge burdens for people and the environment. This figure provides an overview of the risks involved. Huge mining sites and tailings repositories spoil whole rural areas during and after mining projects. Tailings mixed with chemicals and salts have to be deposited in huge landfills capable of holding many millions of tons. These tailings are not covered as a rule. Often seepage containing heavy metals and chemicals and loaded with salt trickles into the groundwater, making any production of drinking water impossible over wide areas for long periods of time. Dust contaminated with radon and radioactivity is dispersed by the ambient air and causes radiation. And as a result of dam-bursts that still occur today, millions of cubic meters of ore slurry are sometimes carried downstream, turning streams and rivers into toxic sewage waters over many years.More information can be found at: www.oeko.de/research_consultancy/issues/emission_and_ambi... |
| 撮影日 | 2013-04-26 09:35:19 |
| 撮影者 | Oeko-Institut e.V. |
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