Lundgren, Environmental Geology
331-334, 404-418

http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/index.html#UENR
A private site with info on uranium geology, health effects, tailings, enrichment (very up-to-date)
Uranium: Its Uses and Hazards
Uranium Mining and Milling Wastes: An Introduction

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/index.html
EPA's Radiation site, Health effects, WIPP, YMP FAQs

Uranium Geology and Mining

http://www.uic.com.au/nip34.htm
Geology of uranium (Australian perspective)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/b2141/b2141.html
Uranium Provinces of North America - Their Definition, Distribution, and Models
Warren I. Finch U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2141

http://www.uraniumsa.org/processing/processing.htm
Some short info from Australia on two mining methods
Also has a nice interactive on processing

http://www.uic.com.au/nip41.htm
Info on world production of uranium

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/UU/dku1.html
History of Uranium Mining in Texas

http://www.texasep.org/html/wst/wst_6ird_mnng.html
Uranium recovery operations in Texas

Nuclear waste
http://web.em.doe.gov/idb97/contents.html
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) data base for inventories, projections, and characteristics of domestic spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste

From Cleanup to Stewardship, A Companion Report to Accelerating Cleanup: Paths to Closure, October 1999
http://lts.apps.em.doe.gov/center/reports/pdf/doc130.pdf
Supports the Scoping Process Required for the 1998 PEIS Settlement Study and provides background information on the Department of Energy's long-term stewardship obligations and activities.

Low level
http://web.em.doe.gov/lowlevel/llw2000/index.html
This document has been prepared in accordance with the Department of Energy's response to Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Recommendation 94-2, and describes the overall approach, major elements, and key implementation steps of the Department of Energy's Low-Level Waste Projection Program

Transuranics
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/
Waste Isolation Pilot Project

Pioneering Nuclear Waste Disposal. This is a summary of the program with some background information, very general
Other info in the Facility permit

High level
http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/
OCRWM home page

Also under program document there is an education document called Science, Society, and America's Nuclear Waste. Although designed for 8-12, there's lots of good, understandable info on all kinds of waste,, especially in units 1 and 2. Try the pretest in Unit 1 and see how you do. There are also tests for each unit.
http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/program_docs/curriculum/index.shtml

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/gump/ymp/ymp.html
USGS geophysical studies

http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/
Nevada nuclear waste site

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Geology of Uranium
What is uranium used for?
How is uranium enriched?
How does nuclear fission work?
How does a nuclear power plant work? BWR versus PWR

What is the geology of uranium? Why does it concentrate?
How is uranium mined?
Where are the major world centers of uranium mining?
What's happening in the US? In Texas?
What are mine tailings? What's the problem with them? What's in them?
What can be done with them?

Health Effects, Environmental Problems
What are the health effects of uranium?
Where do the most problems occur?
Why is it such a problem?

Legal Areas
What agency oversees uranium mining?
Who regulates commercial nuclear reactors?
Who regulates nuclear waste by type?
What is the function of the OCRWM?
When was it established?
What is the Nuclear Waste Policy Act?
What is EPA's role?

Waste
What is nuclear waste?
What are transuranics?
What is high-level versus low-level nuclear waste?

Low level-waste
How and where do we store low-level waste?

Transuranics
How and where do we store transuranics?
How has this concept developed?
Where is WIPP? What can be stored at WIPP?
Where is most of the waste coming from? What kind of quantities?
What is the geology of WIPP? How will this geology ensure the safety of this material?
What is required to be monitored at WIPP? Where does this monitoring occur?
(This is in the facility permit. Note also that there is an entire Appendix related to how to do the statistical analysis)

High Level Waste
What about high-level waste?
What has been the history of high-level radioactive waste disposal in the US?

Transportation Issues
How can you get high-level waste from its use area to the disposal area?
What containers have been approved?
What sort of assistance is the federal government providing to state and tribal nations?
What comments, objections have been voiced in response to the plan? by whom?

Yucca Mountain
So what has been the history of Yucca Mountain?
Was this the only site considered?
Where is it? What is the nature of the geology? The hydrology?
Are there potential problems?

From Lundgren review the differences between the Swedish/Finnish disposal methods and the US disposal methods..