Lecture 20 - Environmental Chemicals II

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Learning Objectives

1. Examine the cause and effects of the release of an industrial cyanide/heavy metals impoundment into a major European river system.
2. Examine the heavy metals release from a tailings dam failure in Southwestern Spain.
3. Describe the science and toxicological impacts of ionizing radiation resulting from radionuclides.
4. Understand the science and issues surrounding mixed waste management in the US.
5. Examine the technological difficulties associated with subsurface radionuclide plumes of the Hanford Reservation migrating towards the Columbia River.

Advance Reading

1. None for this lecture

Resources

Keywords

Suggested Reading

1. Accident Report: Preliminary evaluation of the cyanide pollution in the rivers Szamos and Tisza
2. UN Assessment Report: Cyanide Spill at Baia Mare Romania (.pdf 1.7 MB)
3. Dead River
4. UN: Pollution Remains After Romanian Cyanide Spill
5. Toxic spill in Spain ruins crops, endangers wildlife
6. CNN: Spain Averts Toxic Spill
7. Examples of recent dam failures and their implications 
8. The Los Frailes tailings dam failure (Aznalcóllar, Spain)
9. What happened at Three Mile Island; Animation
10. NRC Fact Sheet: Three Mile Island
11. OECD-NEA: Chenobyl Radiological and Health Impact
12. The DOE Hanford Site