[en] Extensive uranium mining and processing was widely spread in the former socialist european countries, especially former G.D.R., Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. The exploration and the use of other radioactive contaminated mining products, e.g. hard coal for uranium winning in eastern Germany and highly radium contaminated coal in Upper Silesia (Poland) for energetic purposes was also a common practice. Besides uranium and coal mining activities naturally occurring radioactivity was also observed in copper shale mining. All these mining activities led to the accumulation of vast amounts of radioactive wastes and to the contamination of large areas. Very often these wastes not only contain elevated concentrations of radionuclides like uranium, thorium and the relevant daughter nuclides but also other toxic chemical elements (Schneider et. al. 2001a). Now these polluted areas are a permanent source of ground and surface water contamination in the mining districts. Due to establishment of the new Radiation Protection Law in Germany in 2001, the management of radioactive wastes from non uranium mining activities is increasingly gaining attention. For reasons of environmental security and to avoid the uncontrolled spread of radioactive pollution, a permanent cost effective monitoring and control of pollution levels is necessary as long as the wastes are deposited in interim disposal sites. To avoid the current situation of these normally low radioactive contaminated wastes to become the final deposition state, new waste management concepts are needed