Audit report on the City of West Branch, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the City of West Branch, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2008

Reorganização da Universidade A Unidade de Ciência e Tecnologia [U-CTE] A Unidade de Ciências Políticas da Educação e do Comportamento [U-CPC]

Através deste artigo, pretendemos dar a conhecer o trabalho que se tem vindo a desenvolver para a Reorganização da Universidade, iniciada em Dezembro de 2005, apresentando, por um lado, os passos que se deram desde que sentimos a necessidade de mudar a estrutura então vigente, face ao número crescente de alunos e do corpo docente, da demanda e oferta de cursos que se alarga a cada ano e, por outro lado, fazendo uma reflexão sobre o trabalho que a Unidade de Ciências Políticas, da Educação e do Comportamento [U-CPC] e o da Unidade de Ciência e Tecnologia [UCTE] têm vindo a desenvolver e pretendem propiciar no futuro36. Avançamos, também, com exortações ao trabalho e à reflexão em equipa.

Uranium-enrichment in soils and plants in the vicinity of a pitchblende vein at La Creusaz-Les Marecottes (W of Martigny, Valais, Switzerland)

In the NE part of the Aiguilles Rouges Massif near Martigny, at the eastern contact of the Variscan Vallorcine granite to adjacent gneisses, a series of pitchblende (UO2)-veins occur. This paper determines the level of enrichment and mobility of uranium in soils situated in the vicinity of such a UO2-vein 7 km west of Martigny. Within an area of 50 x 100 m, situated on a relatively steep slope and characterized by a strong gramma-ray anomaly, six soil profiles including their plant cover and a reference soil profile outside the influence of the UO2-vein have been examined. The soil shows pH-values between 4 and 5 and is colluvial. The applied analytical methods for the metal contents include extraction methods, common for soil studies, and bulk analysis performed with X-ray fluorescence and ICP-MS. Uranium contents found in the uppermost 20 cm of the soil profiles vary from 2,500 ppm close to the vein to 15 ppm at the lowermost point of the study area. The reference soil has around 3 ppm uranium. At greater depth (20 to 40 cm) the U-content decreases to about half of the surface values, indicating a vertical transport of uranium within the soil profile. No systematic dependance of uranium-contents to grain size (amount of clay) nor to the amount of organic matter has been found. However, the good correlation between uranium and free iron oxide concentration suggests adsorption of uranium on iron oxy-hydroxides. The ashes of grass and mosses contain up to 90 ppm U, the blueberry and redwood only up to 3 ppm. Our observations suggest that at the surface the uranium is transported by downhill creep (solifluxion) of uranium-rich rock fragments. Liberated by oxidation of the uppermost fragments in a given soil column, the uranium migrates vertically until the conditions are favourable to adsorption onto Fe-oxy-hydroxides. However, as high U-contents of local surface water show, this adsorption does not lead to a significant retention of the uranium.

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