Removal of Plutonium-239 and Americium-241 from rocky flats soil by leaching

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 370-374

  Lu, N ^a   Kung, K S ^a   Mason, C F V ^a   Triay, I R ^a   Cotter, C R ^a   Pappas, A J ^b   Pappas, M E G ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MIAMI DADE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; AMERICIUM; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; IMPURITIES; IRON OXIDES; LEACHING; PLUTONIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUBILITY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ASCORBIC ACID; CITRATE; COMPLEXING REDUCING REAGENTS; SODIUM DITHIONITE;

SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL;

AMERICIUM 241; ASCORBIC ACID; CITRATE SODIUM; CITRIC ACID; DITHIONITE; ORGANIC MATTER; PLUTONIUM 239; SODIUM DITHIONITE;

LEACHING; REMOVAL; SOIL;

LEACHING; RADIONUCLIDE; REMEDIATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; LEACHING; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 0032005944     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es970329t     Document Type: Article

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