Uranium Tailings
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Uranium tailings are a waste byproduct (tailings) of uranium mining. In mining, the raw uranium ore is brought to the surface and crushed into a fine sand. The valuable uranium-bearing minerals are then mechanically removed, and the remaining radioactive sand, called "uranium tailings", is stored in huge impoundments.If these uranium tailings are left on the surface and allowed to dry out, the radioactive sand can be carried great distances by the wind, entering the food chain and bodies of water. The danger posed by such sand dispersal is uncertain…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Uranium tailings are a waste byproduct (tailings) of uranium mining. In mining, the raw uranium ore is brought to the surface and crushed into a fine sand. The valuable uranium-bearing minerals are then mechanically removed, and the remaining radioactive sand, called "uranium tailings", is stored in huge impoundments.If these uranium tailings are left on the surface and allowed to dry out, the radioactive sand can be carried great distances by the wind, entering the food chain and bodies of water. The danger posed by such sand dispersal is uncertain at best given the dilution effect of dispersal and the fact that the majority of tailing mass will be inert rock, just as it was in the raw ore before the extraction of the uranium.