Potential remediation approach for uranium-contaminated groundwaters through potassium uranyl vanadate precipitation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5467-5471

  Tokunaga, Tetsu K ^a   Kim, Yongman ^a   Wan, Jiamin ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOREDUCTION; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; ELECTRON DONORS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS; NEUTRAL SOLUTION; OXIDIZING CONDITIONS; REGULATORY LEVEL; SOLID-PHASE; THERMODYNAMIC CALCULATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC DATA;

CALCIUM; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MINERALS; MINING; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; POTASSIUM; REMEDIATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; URANIUM ALLOYS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; VANADATE MINERALS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

GROUND WATER; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM URANYL VANADATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM;

BIOREMEDIATION; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PH; PHOSPHATE; POLLUTION CONTROL; POTASSIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REMEDIATION; THERMODYNAMICS; URANIUM;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; OXIDATION; PH; PRECIPITATION; SOLID; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

POTASSIUM; PRECIPITATION; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; THERMODYNAMICS; URANIUM; VANADATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 67650457024     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900619s     Document Type: Article

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