Role of nitrate in conditioning aquifer sediments for technetium bioreduction

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 150-155

  Law, Gareth T W ^a   Geissler, Andrea ^b   Boothman, Christopher ^b   Burke, Ian T ^a   Livens, Francis R ^b   Lloyd, Jonathan R ^b   Morris, Katherine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC INCUBATION; BIOREDUCTIONS; CARBONATE CONCENTRATIONS; CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENT; FE REDUCTIONS; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT MICROCOSMS; SULFATE REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC GROUNDWATER; TECHNETIUM 99; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTING PROCESS;

AQUIFERS; CARBONATION; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON COMPOUNDS; METAL RECOVERY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECHNETIUM;

NITRATES;

CARBONIC ACID; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; SULFATE; TECHNETIUM;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; CARBONATE; DENITRIFICATION; MICROCOSM; NITRATE; PH; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RADIONUCLIDE; TECHNETIUM;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIOREDUCTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MICROCOSM; PH; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TECHNETIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 75349092545     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9010866     Document Type: Article

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