Using sequential extraction techniques to assess the partitioning of plutonium and neptunium-237 from multiple sources in sediments from the Ob River (Siberia)

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 547-557

  Kenna, Timothy C ^a,b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Neptunium; Ob Estuary; Plutonium; Sequential extraction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; CHEMICAL TREATMENTS; DITHIONITE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; HOT PARTICLES; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDROUS OXIDES; IRTYSH RIVER; ISOTOPE RATIO; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MEAN RATIO; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NATURALLY OCCURRING; OB ESTUARY; ORGANIC MATTER; SENSITIVE ELEMENTS; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SIBERIA; SOLID PHASIS; SURFACE TEST; TEST SITE; TRACE METAL;

CLAY MINERALS; EXTRACTION; HYDRATES; IRON OXIDES; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL RECOVERY; MINERALS; NEPTUNIUM; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POSITIVE IONS; RADIOISOTOPES; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; REFRACTORY METALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SMELTING; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

PLUTONIUM;

AMMONIUM ACETATE; CARBONIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DITHIONITE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON OXIDE; MANGANESE OXIDE; NEPTUNIUM 237; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; SILICATE;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTRACTION METHOD; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEACHING; NEPTUNIUM; PARTITIONING; PLUTONIUM; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TRACE METAL;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CLAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; HYDRATION; LEACHING; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEDIMENT;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NEPTUNIUM; PLUTONIUM; RIVERS; SIBERIA;

EURASIA; OB RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 67349137714     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2009.03.016     Document Type: Article

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