Groundwater nanoparticles in the far-field at the nevada test site: Mechanism for radionuclide transport

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1293-1298

  Utsunomiya, Satoshi ^a   Kersting, Annie B ^b   Ewing, Rodney C ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDE ELEMENTS; ATOMIC RATIOS; CHEMICAL ASSOCIATIONS; FACILITATED TRANSPORTS; FAR FIELDS; HAADF STEMS; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK FIELDS; MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES; NANO-SCALE; NANO-SCALE PARTICLES; NEVADA TEST SITES; OXIDE HYDRATES; PREDICTIVE TRANSPORTS; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORTS; RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS; SCANNING TEM; SIZE RANGES;

ACTINIDES; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; EUROPIUM; GROUNDWATER; HYDRATES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MOLYBDENUM; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; SILICATES; SODIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; URANIUM;

NANOPARTICLES;

ACTINIDE; COBALT; GROUND WATER; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC CARBON; RADIOISOTOPE;

ACTINIDE; CESIUM; GROUNDWATER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; NANOANALYSIS; NUCLEAR WASTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

COLLOIDS; ELEMENTS; MOTION; NANOPARTICLES; NEVADA; RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER SUPPLY;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 64349094214     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es802181t     Document Type: Article

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