3.6 Main pollutants in typical radioactive contaminated sites

An extensive list of typical practices leading to radioactive contamination of sites and environmental compartments is found in IAEA Technical Report Series No. 442: Remediation of Sites with Mixed Contamination of Radioactive and Other Hazardous Substances, Vienna, 2006. The Tables in the following sections summarize some of the activities and the resulting contaminants that are produced and might be released to the environment.