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Characterization Of Organic Carbon In Sediments From Old Rifle, Co, A Former Uranium Mill, Francis Michael Tee, Morris Jones, Sharon Bone, Michael Schaefer, Scott Fendorf, John Bargar
Characterization Of Organic Carbon In Sediments From Old Rifle, Co, A Former Uranium Mill, Francis Michael Tee, Morris Jones, Sharon Bone, Michael Schaefer, Scott Fendorf, John Bargar
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Characterization of sediments from Old Rifle, CO, a former uranium mill
More than 34 million gallons (~129 million liters) of groundwater are contaminated with uranium at Old Rifle, Colorado – a former uranium-processing site that operated until 1958. The original Department of Energy strategy for remediation, involving natural flushing of U from the groundwater through mixing with surface water, has not been as successful as predicted. The uranium plume is replenished when insoluble U(IV) is oxidized to the more mobile U(VI). Relatively thin pockets of silt-, clay-, and organic-rich sediments contain reduced uranium, iron and sulfur and are referred to …