Mineralization of contaminant uranium and leach rates in sediments from Hanford, Washington

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-104

  Brown, Christopher F ^a   Serne, R Jeffrey ^a   Catalano, Jeffrey G ^b,c   Krupka, Kenneth M ^a   Icenhower, Jonathan P ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINANT URANIUM; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; DISSOLUTION KINETICS; EXAFS SPECTROSCOPY; FLOWTHROUGH; HANFORD; INTER-GROWTHS; ISOLATED PORES; LEACH RATE; NON-LINEAR; NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE; OXIDIZING ENVIRONMENTS; PORE SOLUTION; PROCESSING FACILITIES; SEM ANALYSIS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; WASHINGTON; XANES SPECTROSCOPY;

ALUMINOSILICATES; CALCIUM; DISSOLUTION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM ALLOYS; X RAY ABSORPTION NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY;

URANIUM;

DISSOLUTION; LEACHING; MINERALIZATION; PORE SPACE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; URANIUM ISOTOPE; XANES SPECTROSCOPY;

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

EID: 72149103780     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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