Influences of organic carbon supply rate on uranium bioreduction in initially oxidizing, contaminated sediment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 8901-8907

  Tokunaga, Tetsu K ^a   Wan, Jiamin ^a   Kim, Yongman ^a   Daly, Rebecca A ^b   Brodie, Eoin L ^a   Hazen, Terry C ^a   Herman, Don ^b   Firestone, Mary K ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; BACTERIOLOGY; CARBONATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENTS; FIRE HAZARDS; IRON COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOLUBILITY; TERNARY SYSTEMS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; VEGETATION;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; BIOREDUCTION; CARBON SUPPLIES; CHEMICAL SPECIES; COMPETING EFFECTS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS; ELEVATED LEVELS; IN-SITU; ORGANIC CARBON (OC; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SUPPLY RATES; TREATMENT STRATEGIES;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

ACETIC ACID; CARBONIC ACID; FERRIC ION; LACTIC ACID; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE; URANIUM;

BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBONATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEXATION; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOLUBILITY; STABILIZATION; SULFATE; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; EFFLUENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOLUBILITY;

ACETATES; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRODES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LACTIC ACID; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTIAL PRESSURE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 57449091725     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8019947     Document Type: Article

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