Environmental models are important tools for impact evaluation, pollution control and remediation and safety measures in an Environment Management System. These models provide an estimate of the behavior of some chemicals (contaminants) in the environmental compartments (water, air, soil and sediment) as a function of the physical chemical and transport characteristics of these substances and of environmental data. The study of the contaminant transfer among the environmental compartments and the resulting concentrations in these compartments is an essential prerequisite for assessing the likely exposition, the accumulation processes and the toxicity for the living organisms, including man. In this work, the contaminant of interest is the uranium used in the nuclear fuel cycle. In this case, the surface waters represent an important pathway by which the radioactive material can be dispersed from a nuclear installation to the environment and from there to man. The uranium transport in an artificial pond, that receives the treated effluents from the uranium dioxide (UO2) powder and pellets plants (Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil S.A. em Resende/RJ), was studied. From the analyses of total uranium in the pond sediment, by fluorimetry, from July to December of 2002, the distribution coefficient (KD) was calculated. The value found for KD confirms the main pathway for uranium transport to the sediment. With the aid of meteorological data, it was observed that the lower concentrations of total uranium in the sediment occurred during the rainy months.