Corrosion and transport of depleted uranium in sand-rich environments

Chemosphere

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1434-1439

  Handley Sidhu, Stephanie ^a   Bryan, Nick D ^b   Worsfold, Paul J ^a   Vaughan, David J ^b   Livens, Francis R ^b   Keith Roach, Miranda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Depleted uranium (DU); Metaschoepite; Transport; Uranyl

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; IRON COMPOUNDS; POTABLE WATER; RATE CONSTANTS; SAND; URANIUM; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; DEPLETED URANIUM; DESORPTION RATE CONSTANTS; MAXIMUM ADMISSIBLE CONCENTRATION; METASCHOEPITE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TRANSPORT; URANYL;

CORROSION;

FERRIC ION; NITRATE; URANIUM;

CORROSION; DISSOLUTION; DRINKING WATER; MICROCOSM; MILITARY APPLICATION; SAND; URANIUM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORROSION; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOW KINETICS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MICROCOSM; SAND; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHANGE; SOIL POLLUTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 71649105102     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.08.053     Document Type: Article

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