Uranium phases in contaminated sediments below Hanford's U tank farm

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4280-4286

  Um, Wooyong ^a   Wang, Zheming ^a   Serne, R Jeffrey ^a   Williams, Benjamin D ^a   Brown, Christopher F ^a   Dodge, Cleveland J ^b   Francis, Arokiasamy J ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELOW GROUND SURFACES; CLAY-SIZE FRACTION; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; DISSOLUTION PROCESS; FATE AND TRANSPORT; HANFORD; NATURAL URANIUM; RELEASE MECHANISM; SECONDARY PRECIPITATES; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS; STRONG CORRELATION; SURFACE PHASIS; SURFACE PRECIPITATE; TANK FARMS; TANK WASTE; URANOPHANE; VADOSE ZONE; VADOSE ZONE SEDIMENTS; XAFS;

CALCIUM; CLAY MINERALS; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; LEACHING; POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATES; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

SILICATE; URANIUM;

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; LEACHING; MICROSCOPY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SILICATE; SPECTROSCOPY; URANIUM; VADOSE ZONE;

ARTICLE; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; TANK; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; URANIUM; WASHINGTON; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE;

HANFORD; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 67449161609     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900203r     Document Type: Article

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