Neptunium(V) sorption and diffusion in Opalinus Clay

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6567-6571

  Wu, Tao ^a,c   Amayri, Samer ^a   Drebert, Jakob ^a   Van Loon, Luc R ^b   Reich, Tobias ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c HUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CAPILLARY METHOD; DIFFUSION BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSION EXPERIMENTS; DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; IN-DIFFUSION; MOBILE PHASE; OPALINUS CLAY; OUT-DIFFUSION; PORE WATERS; ROCK CAPACITY FACTORS; TRITIATED WATER;

CLAY MINERALS; EXPERIMENTS; NEPTUNIUM; SODIUM; SORPTION; WATER;

DIFFUSION;

NEPTUNIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; TRITIUM OXIDE; WATER; ALUMINUM SILICATE;

CLAY; DIFFUSION; NEPTUNIUM; POREWATER; POROSITY; SORPTION; TRITIUM;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CLAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; PH; POROSITY; RELIABILITY; ROCK; SUSPENSION; CHEMISTRY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SWITZERLAND; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; DIFFUSION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPTUNIUM; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SWITZERLAND; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 69549122903     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9008568     Document Type: Article

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