A window into the future: case study of long-term radiological risk modelling posed by unregulated mining waste repurposing activities.

The study aims to assess long-term radiological exposure risks and effects to both industrial workers and occupants living in the near vicinity of local tailing processing plants. The detrimental effects of licensing exemption were studied by comparing contaminated soil collected from 7 unlicensed-by the Atomic Energy Licensing Board-tailing processing plants with soil from control location. It was found that the average concentration of Ra, Th, and  K for all seven processing plants fell between the range of 0.