Can we predict uranium bioavailability based on soil parameters? Part 2: Soil solution uranium concentration is not a good bioavailability index

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 577-586

  Vandenhove, H ^a   Van Hees, M ^a   Wannijn, J ^a   Wouters, K ^b   Wang, L ^a  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ryegrass; Soil characteristics; Speciation; Transfer factor; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRACE ANALYSIS; URANIUM;

RYEGRASS; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIATION; TRANSFER FACTORS;

SOILS;

URANIUM;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; GRASS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PERENNIAL RYEGRASS; PLANT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CALCIUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LOLIUM; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POTASSIUM; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; URANIUM;

LOLIUM;

EID: 33751411100     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.04.012     Document Type: Article

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