Quantitative separation of monomeric U(IV) from UO2 in products of U(VI) reduction

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6150-6157

  Alessi, Daniel S ^a   Uster, Benjamin ^a   Veeramani, Harish ^a,c   Suvorova, Elena I ^a   Lezama Pacheco, Juan S ^b   Stubbs, Joanne E ^b,d   Bargar, John R ^b   Bernier Latmani, Rizlan ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END-PRODUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; HEXAVALENT URANIUM; QUANTITATIVE SEPARATION; RE-OXIDATION; WET-CHEMICAL METHOD;

URANIUM; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

OXIDE MINERALS;

BICARBONATE; IRON; MONOMER; URANIUM; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; MINERAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; SAMPLING; URANINITE; URANIUM;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION; BICARBONATES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; FERUMOXYTOL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LINEAR MODELS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHATES; SHEWANELLA; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84861853552     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204123z     Document Type: Article

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