Drought-driven acidification mobilizes legacy uranium across a contaminated wetland landscape
The fate of uranium within wetland systems is of global interest due to the legacy of contamination from the mining industry. This study characterized soil and pore water biogeochemical conditions at five sites in a wetland area impacted by a historic U tailings breach and one wetland located at the outer limits of tailings impoundment facilities. Samples were collected for 16S rRNA sequencing at the 1st and 10th sampling points along transects in each wetland.