Uranium 238U/235U isotope ratios as indicators of reduction: Results from an in situ biostimulation experiment at Rifle, Colorado, U.S.A.

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 5927-5933

  Bopp, Charles John ^a   Lundstrom, Craig C ^a   Johnson, Thomas M ^a   Sanford, Robert A ^a   Long, Philip E ^b   Williams, Kenneth H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTIMULATION; CONCENTRATION METHOD; CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS; ENZYMATIC REDUCTION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIELD RESEARCH; FRACTIONATION FACTORS; GEOBACTER; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; IN-SITU; INJECTION WELLS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE RATIO; ISOTOPE TRACER METHOD; MC-ICP-MS; METAL-REDUCING BACTERIA; MONITORING WELLS; NUCLEAR FIELDS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RAYLEIGH DISTILLATION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; GUNS (ARMAMENT); INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; MONITORING; REDUCTION; SORPTION; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ACETIC ACID; GROUND WATER; URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238; WELL WATER; TRACER; URANIUM;

BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DILUTION; FRACTIONATION; GEOBACTER; INTERFEROMETER; METHODOLOGY; REDUCTION; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; RADIATION MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANT;

COLORADO; RIFLE; UNITED STATES;

GEOBACTER SP.;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COLORADO; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 77955118258     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100643v     Document Type: Article

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