Modeling Np and Pu transport with a surface complexation model and spatially variant sorption capacities: Implications for reactive transport modeling and performance assessments of nuclear waste disposal sites

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 331-349

  Glynn, Pierre D ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Freundlich; Geochemical modeling; Kd; Langmuir; Linear partition coefficient; Radionuclide transport

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; ION EXCHANGE; REACTION KINETICS; SORPTION; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

REDOX-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS;

GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SORPTION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

GEOCHEMISTRY; MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SORPTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 0038031888     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(03)00009-8     Document Type: Article

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