Biological reduction of uranium-From the laboratory to the field

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6260-6271

  Dullies, Frank ^a   Lutze, Werner ^b   Gong, Weiliang ^b   Nuttall, H Eric ^c  

^a Niederlassung Ronneburg   (Germany)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic in situ reduction; Mackinawite; Mill tailings; Sulfide redox buffer; Uraninite oxidation; Uraninite stability; Uranium immobilization

Indexed keywords

IN-SITU; MACKINAWITE; MILL TAILINGS; REDOX BUFFER; URANINITE OXIDATION; URANINITE STABILITY;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LABORATORIES; LAKES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; POLLUTION; URANIUM;

OXIDE MINERALS;

GROUND WATER; MINERAL; OXYGEN; TAP WATER; URANIUM;

BIOREMEDIATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IMMOBILIZATION; MACKINAWITE; OXIDATION; TAILINGS; URANINITE; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLOW RATE; GERMANY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; URANIUM; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

GERMANY;

PASSIFLORA;

EID: 77958090910     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.08.018     Document Type: Article

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