Interviews with two experts
Q:
Is uranium pollution common in the outside environment? Are there such areas in China? Are there any research institutes that specialize in this field.
A:
Uranium, which is an element distributed in earth’s crust, is not so rare as we once thought. Both geological activities and human disturbances may result in changes in uranium distribution, so that some areas show relatively higher uranium contents. A case in point is Punjab in India. In China, the contents of uranium are higher than background values around the uranium mines in Jiangxi and Hunan and around rare earth mines in Inner Mongolia and Guangdong.
