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Decommissioning Data - Europe

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Denmark

Waste Rock · Mill Tailings

Waste Rock

Location	No. of Heaps	Area ha	Volume 10⁶ m³	Status
Risø*	3	?	[3760 t]	closed [ISSUES]

* ores originating from Kvanefjeld, Greenland

Mill Tailings

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Risø*	0.15	0.00113	closed (Google Maps )

* from processing of ores originating from Kvanefjeld, Greenland
Source: Decommissioning of the nuclear facilities at Risø National Laboratory - Descriptions and cost assessment

, Edited by Kurt Lauridsen, Risø National Laboratory, February 2001, Risø-R-1250(EN), p.53 (4.1MB PDF)

Estonia

Uranium Mines · Waste Rock · Mill Tailings

Uranium Mines

Location	Type	No. of Shafts	Total Production [t U]	Status
Sillamäe	UG		65	closed

Type: UG = underground
Source: Uranium 1997, OECD 1998

Mill Tailings

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Sillamäe*	33	4	remediation completed [ISSUES]

* mostly from processing of imported ores
Sources: Uranium 1997, OECD 1998

Location	Type	No. of Shafts	Total Production [t U]	Status
Paukkajanvaara			30	restored

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Paukkajanvaara		0.04

Hungary

Mines · Waste Rock · Heap Leaching Waste · Mill Tailings · In Situ Leach Facilities

Uranium Mines

Location	Type	No. of Shafts	Total Production [t U]	Status
Mecsek	OP, UG, HL	5	18,221*	remediation in action [ISSUES]

Type: UG = underground, OP = open pit, HL = heap leaching
* as of end 1998
Source: Uranium 1999, OECD 2000; IAEA-TECDOC-865 V.1 p.151 (1996)

Waste Rock

Location	No. of Heaps	Area ha	Volume 10⁶ m³	Status
Mecsek			18	restoration ongoing

Sources: IAEA-TECDOC-965 V.3 p.161 (1996)

Heap Leaching Waste

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Mecsek	60	7.2	restoration ongoing

Sources: Uranium 1997, OECD 1998; IAEA-TECDOC-965 V.3 p.161 (1996)

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Mecsek (image )	163	11.734	restoration ongoing

In Situ Leach Facilities

A small pilot ISL test was performed at Dinnyeberki in 1988. Sources: PHARE 1995

Poland

Mines · Waste Rock · Mill Tailings

Map of locations

Uranium Mines

Location	Type	Total Production [t U]	Status
Kowary	UG	293	abandoned [ISSUES]
Radoniów	UG	214	abandoned
Kopaniec			abandoned
Kletno			abandoned
Rudki			abandoned
Radomice			abandoned
Szklarska Poręba			abandoned
Wojcieszyce	UG	12.3	abandoned
Okrzeszyn			abandoned
Mniszków	UG	4.5	abandoned
Miedzianka	UG	14.7	abandoned
Radzimowice			abandoned
Rochowice			abandoned
Grzmiąca			abandoned
Rędziny			abandoned

TOTAL		650

Type: UG = underground, OP = open pit, HL = heap leaching
Source: IAEA-TECDOC-865 V.1 p.193 (1996); Budapest94; EUR16885 (1996); NEA/IAEA 2008

Waste Rock

Location	No. of Heaps	Area ha	Volume 10⁶ m³	Status
Kowary	11			abandoned
Radoniów	1	2.5		abandoned
Kopaniec	3			abandoned
Kletno	24			abandoned
Rudki	1			restored
?	?	?	?	?
TOTAL

Sources: IAEA-TECDOC-865 V.1 p.193 (1996)

Mill Tailings

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Kowary	1.3	0.25	remediated [ISSUES]

Sources: IAEA-TECDOC-982 (1997); Piestrzynksi 2000; Goerner 2001

Portugal

Mines · Waste Rock · Heap Leaching Waste · Mill Tailings · In Situ Leach Facilities

Uranium Mines

Location	Type	Total Production [t U]	Status
Urgeiriça	OP, UG, HL		decommissioning [ISSUES]
Bica	UG		?
Castelejo	UG		decommissioning
Cunha Baixa	UG, OP		decommissioning
Quinta do Bispo	OP, HL		decommissioning
Vale da Abrutiga	OP		reclamation underway

TOTAL		3,443

Type: UG = underground, OP = open pit, HL = heap leaching
* as of 1998
Source: Uranium 1999, OECD 2000; NEA 2002

Location	No. of Heaps	Area ha	Volume 10⁶ m³	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Urgeiriça	1	?	0.15		? [ISSUES]
Bica	1	?		0.3	?
Quinta do Bispo	1	?	?	1.5
Vale da Abrutiga	1	?	?	1.5
Cunha Baixa	2	?	?	1.1
?	?	?	?	?
TOTAL

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Urgeiriça	?	?	operating [ISSUES]
Quinta do Bispo
TOTAL

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Urgeiriça	10	4	[ISSUES]
TOTAL

In Situ Leach Facilities

Location	Total Production [t U]	Status
Urgeiriça		operating

TOTAL	250*

* as of end 1998
Sources: Uranium 1999, OECD 2000

Location	Type	Size	Total Production [t U]	Status
Avram Iancu	UG	M		closed
Dobrei South		M		closed
Crucea	UG	S		closed
Băiţa Bihor	OP	L		closed
Ciudanoviţa	UG	M		closed [ISSUES]
Dobrei North		S		closed
Natra		M		closed

TOTAL			17,554*

Location	No. of Heaps	Area ha	Volume 10⁶ m³
Banat Mining Complex	17	21
Bihor Mining Complex	8	52.9
Crucea Mining Complex	30	36.4
Tulghes II sector	74	15.7
Alba Iulia V sector	31	12.2
TOTAL	160	138.2	5.5

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Feldioara (Braşov)	37	4.3	closed

Serbia

Mines · Waste Rock · Mill Tailings

Uranium Mines

Location	Type	No. of Shafts	Status
Mezdreja	UG	1	closed
Srneći Do	UG	1	closed
Gabrovnica	UG		closed

Type: UG = underground
Source: Natural Radioactive Elements in the Region of Closed Uranium Mines on Stara Planina, Eastern Serbia, by Jovan Kovačević et al, in: The New Uranium Mining Boom - Challenge and lessons learned, Broder Merkel et al. (Eds.), 2011, p. 315-324

Waste Rock

Location	No. of Heaps	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Mezdreja	3	0.63	0.1	closed
Srneći Do	1	0.009	0.0002	closed
Gabrovnica	2			closed

Source: Natural Radioactive Elements in the Region of Closed Uranium Mines on Stara Planina, Eastern Serbia, by Jovan Kovačević et al, in: The New Uranium Mining Boom - Challenge and lessons learned, Broder Merkel et al. (Eds.), 2011, p. 315-324

Mill Tailings

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Mezdreja			closed
Gabrovnica			closed

Slovenia

Mines · Waste Rock · Mill Tailings

Uranium Mines

Location	Type	No. of Shafts	Total Production [t U]	Status
Žirovski vrh	UG		382	closed [ISSUES]

Type: UG = underground
Source: Uranium 1997, OECD 1998; IAEA-TECDOC-865 V.1 p.283 (1996)

Waste Rock

Location	No. of Heaps	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Žirovski vrh	3	4.5	1.5	closed, not decommissioned [ISSUES]

Sources: IAEA-TECDOC-865 V.1 p.283 (1996)

Mill Tailings

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Žirovski vrh	3.5	0.7	closed, not decommissioned; geomechanically unstable: ongoing slippage of the slope (7 million t) with the "Boršt" tailings deposit (600,000 t) on the top, at velocity of 30 cm per year, in 2014 still at 3 cm per year, and in 2020 at 2 cm per year [ISSUES]

Sources: IAEA-TECDOC-865 V.1 p.283 (1996)

Sweden

Mines · Waste Rock · Mill Tailings

Uranium Mines

Location	Type	No. of Shafts	Total Production [t U]	Status
Ranstad	OP		200	decommissioned (flooded) [ISSUES]

Type: OP = open pit
Source: Uranium 1997, OECD 1998; IAEA-TECDOC-865 V.2 p.227 (1996)

Waste Rock

Location	No. of Heaps	Area ha	Volume 10⁶ m³	Status
?	?	?	?	?
TOTAL

Sources:

Mill Tailings

Location	Area ha	Contents 10⁶ t	Status
Ranstad	25	1.5	restored [ISSUES]

Sources: IAEA-TECDOC-865 V.2 p.227 (1996)

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