Volume 10 Issue 4
Multi-Metallic Contamination around Former Uranium Mines Induces Adverse Effects and Acclimation Disturbance in Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
A. Le Guernic
1Institut National de l’Environnement industriel et des RISques (INERIS), UMR-I 02 SEBIO, Verneuil en Halatte; Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), pôle environnement, laboratoire d’écotoxicologie des radionucléides, Saint-Paul lez Durance, France
2Institut National de l’Environnement industriel et des RISques (INERIS), UMR-I 02 SEBIO, Verneuil en Halatt, France
3Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA), UMR-I 02 SEBIO, Reims, France
4Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), pôle environnement, laboratoire d’écotoxicologie des radionucléides, Saint-Paul lez Durance, France
Abstract
Uranium extraction is a worldwide activity dur- ing which thousands of tons of ores can be recov- ered, but also million tons of tailings and waste rocks are stored on mine sites, also containing uranium and its decay products […]
Keywords: uranium mines; Gasterosteus aculeatus; contamination