Is soil natural organic matter a sink or source for mobile radioiodine (129I) at the Savannah River Site?

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5716-5735

  Xu, Chen ^a   Zhang, Saijin ^a   Ho, Yi Fang ^a   Miller, Eric J ^a   Roberts, Kimberly A ^b   Li, Hsiu Ping ^a   Schwehr, Kathleen A ^a   Otosaka, Shigeyoshi ^c   Kaplan, Daniel I ^b   Brinkmeyer, Robin ^a   Yeager, Chris M ^b   Santschi, Peter H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; FULVIC ACID; HUMIC ACID; IODINE; NUCLEAR WEAPON; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; REPOSITORY; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

SAVANNAH RIVER SITE; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052277206     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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