Study of leaching mechanisms of caesium ions incorporated in Ordinary Portland Cement

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 171, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 1024-1031

  Papadokostaki, Kyriaki G ^a   Savidou, Anastasia ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND RADIATION PROTECTION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Caesium; Diffusion; Leaching; Portland Cement; Radioactive Waste

Indexed keywords

CAESIUM; CEMENT MATRIX; CEMENT PASTE; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; ELUTION PROCESS; FICK'S LAW; KINETIC BEHAVIOR; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; LEACHING KINETICS; LEACHING MECHANISM; LEACHING TEST; LONG-TERM LEACHING; MATRIX; ORDINARY PORTLAND CEMENT; PARALLEL PERFORMANCE; PORE SURFACE; SHORT-TERM TEST; SORPTION EXPERIMENTS; TWO-TEMPERATURE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ADSORPTION; CEMENT MANUFACTURE; CESIUM COMPOUNDS; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; IONS; LEACHING; PORTLAND CEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY;

CESIUM;

CEMENT; CESIUM; CESIUM 137; CESIUM NITRATE; SODIUM NITRATE;

ADSORPTION; CEMENT; CESIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION; ION; LEACHING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REACTION KINETICS;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELUTION; EROSION; LEACHING; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CESIUM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IONS; KINETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; TEMPERATURE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER;

EID: 70349246365     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.06.118     Document Type: Article

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