The large volumes of ore and solutions manipulated in the extraction and processing operations of radioactive ores generate huge rates of useless by-products, solid wastes, liquids and or gaseous effluents which have been disposed in open air areas for many years. Wind, rainfall and biological processes tend to provoke the dispersion of these materials in the environment interfering in their release and transpo...
Frequently environmental pollution results from different hazardous substances released in the environment, meaning that contaminated sites may have many different chemical sources and transport pathways. Problems concerning environmental pollution affect mainly physical, chemical and biological properties of air, water and soil. The relationships between the sources, exposure and effects of contaminants to hum...
A geoenvironmental site investigation/characterization survey took place in a contaminated costal area in the surroundings of an active oil refinery having an associated petrochemical complex, located north of Porto, in the north-western part of Portugal. In this context, several soil and groundwater samples were collected, respectively in trenches and boreholes, and chemically analyzed allowing the characteriz...
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