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THE URANIUMMINING AND STORAGE OF NUCLEAR WASTE IN CZECH REPUBLIC

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Nuclear Science and Safety in Europe

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The paper describes the situation in the uranium mining and spent fuel management in the Czech Republic. Uranium mining has a long history in the Jachymov area. By the 1960s Czech mines producing 3000 tons a year. After 1989 the uranium mine are mostly closed down and only one active mine in Rozna is active and it is being phased out.

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  1. Physical Engineering Břrehová 7, Czech Technical University in Prague Faculty of Nuclear Sciences, 115 19 Praha1, Czech republic

    Tomáš Čechák & Jaroslav Klusoň

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  1. Tomáš Čechák
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  1. Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Tomas Čechák

  2. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

    László Jenkovszky

  3. Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Iurii Karpenko

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Čechák, T., Klusoň, J. (2006). THE URANIUMMINING AND STORAGE OF NUCLEAR WASTE IN CZECH REPUBLIC. In: Čechák, T., Jenkovszky, L., Karpenko, I. (eds) Nuclear Science and Safety in Europe. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4965-1_18

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