Corrosion and fate of depleted uranium penetrators under progressively anaerobic conditions in estuarine sediment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 350-355

  Handley Sidhu, Stephanie ^a   Worsfold, Paul J ^a   Boothman, Christopher ^b   Lloyd, Jonathan R ^b   Alvarez, Rebeca ^b   Livens, Francis R ^b   Vaughan, David J ^b   Keith Roach, Miranda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; CORROSION PRODUCTS; DEPLETED URANIUMS; DNA SEQUENCING; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITIES; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MICROCOSM EXPERIMENTS; PENETRATOR; PENETRATORS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENTS;

ACTINIDES; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DISSOLUTION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PASSIVATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

CORROSION RATE;

CARBON; IRON; NITRATE; SULFATE; URANIUM; WATER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CORROSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MODELING; PENETRATION; PHYLOGENY; URANIUM;

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORROSION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESTUARY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; RIVER; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOLWAY FIRTH; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CORROSION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREAT BRITAIN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; SOLUTIONS; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM; WATER;

EID: 62749129410     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8021842     Document Type: Article

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