Contaminants · Radionuclides
UraniumU
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)42 sites, 37 still listed
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.
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Sites where it is found
Where plants or fungi were tried
Trial, Ohio, United States
Ashtabula, former uranium processing facility
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Gabès – Ghannouch, Tunisia
Gulf of Gabès (Groupe Chimique Tunisien complex)
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Richland, United States
Hanford Site
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Jaduguda, India
Jadugoda uranium mine and tailings ponds
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Haut-Katanga, Congo - Kinshasa
Lubumbashi and the Katangan Copperbelt
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Thüringen, Germany
Ronneburg (Wismut uranium mining district)
PhytoremediationMycoremediation
Notable case, Johannesburg, South Africa
Witwatersrand gold tailings and acid mine drainage
Phytoremediation
The other sites with a page
Elsewhere in the world
- Arlit and Akokan uranium minesArlit / Akokan, Niger
- Asse II salt mineRemlingen (Wolfenbüttel), Germany
- Huelva phosphogypsum stacksAndalucía (Huelva), Spain
- Kamianske (Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant)Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
- Kingston coal ash spillKingston, Roane County, United States
- Mailuu-SuuJalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan
- Maralinga nuclear test siteSouth Australia, Australia
- Rocky Flats PlantGolden (circa 15 miglia a nord-ovest di Denver), United States
- Rum Jungle uranium-copper mineBatchelor, Australia
- SellafieldSeascale, United Kingdom
- Sillamäe (radioactive tailings repository)Ida-Virumaa, Estonia
- Talvivaara mine (Sotkamo)Kainuu, Finland
- Ust-Kamenogorsk (Oskemen) metallurgical complexEast Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan
- Vieques (former Navy range)Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico