Contaminants · Radionuclides
Radionuclides (mixed)
Radioactive matter: it decays by itself, each radionuclide at its own pace (its half-life), and no treatment speeds that up; it can only be removed, isolated or left to decay.
On the national lists
Sites on the national lists whose official record names this substance. In the bar, the coloured part is the sites still listed. The lists, in full, are on the sites page.
United States
Superfund National Priorities List (NPL)59 sites, 49 still listed
Canada
Federal contaminated sites, High Priority for Action (Class 1)11 sites
Species reported in the literature
Species that acted on this contaminant in at least one study, with the highest level of evidence available. They are pointers from the literature, not a remediation plan.
Sites where it is found
Where plants or fungi were tried
Notable case, Ōkuma / Futaba, Japan
Fukushima Daiichi and its fallout area
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Richland, United States
Hanford Site
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Jaduguda, India
Jadugoda uranium mine and tailings ponds
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Thüringen, Germany
Ronneburg (Wismut uranium mining district)
PhytoremediationMycoremediation
The other sites with a page
Elsewhere in the world
- Arlit and Akokan uranium minesArlit / Akokan, Niger
- Asse II salt mineRemlingen (Wolfenbüttel), Germany
- Bikini AtollMarshall Islands
- Bukit Merah, former Asian Rare Earth plantBukit Merah, near Ipoh, Malaysia
- DounreayThurso, United Kingdom
- Enewetak Atoll and the Runit DomeMarshall Islands
- Flix reservoir (Ebro river)Catalunya (Tarragona), Spain
- Haulbowline Island (former Irish Steel)Cobh (Cork Harbour), Ireland
- Kamianske (Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant)Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
- Mailuu-SuuJalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan
- Maralinga nuclear test siteSouth Australia, Australia
- Mayak, Techa River and Lake KarachayOzërsk, Russia
- Savannah River SiteAiken, United States
- SellafieldSeascale, United Kingdom
- Semipalatinsk Test SiteKurčatov, Kazakhstan
- Sillamäe (radioactive tailings repository)Ida-Virumaa, Estonia