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The open-pit uranium mine Ranstad in southwestern Sweden (see Figure 1) was developed as a part of the Swedish Nuclear Power Programme. Uranium was extracted by percolation leaching with sulfuric acid from alum shale, which has a grade of about 300 g/t [1]. The plant was operated from 1965 to 1969. A total of 1.5 Mtons of alum shale was excavated, and 215 tons of uranium were produced. The waste in form of mill tailings consisted of about 1 million m3 containing 100 tons of uranium and 5 x 1012 Bq of radium-226. The tailings cover an area of about 250 000 m2.
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Sundblad, B. (2000). Remediation of the Former Uranium Mine Ranstad. In: Rofer, C.K., Kaasik, T. (eds) Turning a Problem into a Resource: Remediation and Waste Management at the Sillamäe Site, Estonia. NATO Science Series, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4092-8_10
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