Mobility of Plutonium and Americium through a Shallow Aquifer in a Semiarid Region

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 228-234

  Penrose, William R ^a   Polzer, Wilfred L ^b   Essington, Edward H ^b   Nelson, Donald M ^c   Orlandin, Kent A ^c  

^a Transducer Research Inc ^*  (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; AQUIFERS; FLOW OF WATER--UNDERGROUND; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS;

INFILTRATION;

WATER POLLUTION;

ACTINIDE; AMERICIUM; GROUND WATER; PLUTONIUM; WELL WATER;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AMERICIUM; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

USA, NEW MEXICO, MORTANDAD CANYON;

EID: 0025382703     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es00072a012     Document Type: Article

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