Water samples were collected in and around the Tummalapalle uranium mining area.
Tummalapalle is a famous uranium mining area in India, and the mining activities generally cause groundwater pollution.
Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to summarize groundwater quality in and around Tummalapalle uranium mining area and focus its impact on water quality for irrigation and drinking purpose.
(But, there is only one study of congenital malformations among residents of a uranium mining area).
The review of birth charts and subsequent health service records revealed that 140 of the 13,329 (1.1%) children born in the Shiprock uranium mining area 1964 198181 were identified as having congenital malformations.
The one other epidemiological study that bears on the issue of DU and birth defects is the 1992 study by Shields et al. that assessed birth outcomes among Navajos working and/or residing in the Shiprock, New Mexico uranium mining area [ 57].
National programs have been set up in order to rehabilitate and economically transform affected areas, such as the restoration of former lignite, copper and uranium mining areas in the east of Germany (Lintz and Wirth 2009; Wirth et al. 2012; BMWi 2015).
Experts say the security situation – including armed rebellions in some oil and uranium rich areas of Niger, and the activity of groups linked to al-Qaida around the desert borders – have complicated efforts to distribute food.
Local tribes had petitioned for a monument much bigger than the one designated in 2016, but President Barack Obama opted not to include the uranium-rich area of Red Canyon just over the ridge, the site of the Daneros mine.
The Western Gold & Uranium Corporation purchased Silver Reef's mines in 1948, and in 1951, they began mining uranium in the area.
