Once again, the Institute for Geology of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg is pleased to invite you to the next international conference “UMH V” taking place in Freiberg on September 2008. The UMH V conference will used as basis of an international forum for discussing uranium related problems in conjunction with protecting and preserving our environment. This conference builds on the very successful past conferences (UMH I to UMH IV) from 1995 until 2005.
Practitioners, consultants, regulators, policymaker,
researchers, scientists, engineers, and students will have numerous
opportunities to learn about innovative and emerging scientific
advances and technologies that are needed to address a wide range of
uranium mining and mine closure associated with environmental issues
such as soil and groundwater protection, mine water treatment
technologies and management, environmental impacts of phosphate mining
associated with fertilizer production and technologies for uranium
separation. Key sessions will include mining technologies, reclamation
and remediation, regulatory issues, monitoring measures, modeling
techniques, biogeochemistry of uranium, and risk assessment studies.
Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology V Conference is
organized by by the Institute for Geology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg and
in cooperation with following institutions and organisations.
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
