Assessment of the radiological situation near a mothballed uranium mining facility in North-East Kazakhstan

Abstract In this study, we present radiometric measurements near the mothballed Grachevskoye uranium mining facility (MUMF) and the settlement of Saumalkol, located in northeast Kazakhstan. A pedestrian gamma spectrometric survey was conducted at locations of elevated gamma radiation. Spots with ele...

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Published in:	Scientific Reports
Main Authors:	Sergey Subbotin, Pavel Krivitskiy, Natalya Larionova, Anna Toporova, Assiya Kunduzbayeva, Denis Turchenko, Zhanna Tleukanova, Almira Aidarkhanova
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2025-05-01
Subjects:	Mothballed uranium mining facility Grachevskoye deposit Saumalkol settlement Uranium Radium Thorium
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-01697-6