Mobilization of technetium from reduced sediments under seawater inundation and intrusion scenarios

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 11798-11803

  Eagling, Jane ^a   Worsfold, Paul J ^a   Blake, William H ^a   Keith Roach, Miranda J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Kemakta Konsult   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; FE DISSOLUTION; FLOWTHROUGH; INTRUSION SCENARIOS; IRON MINERALS; KINETICALLY CONTROLLED; NUCLEAR SITES; RETARDING EFFECT; SEA LEVEL RISE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; WATER CHEMISTRY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; IRON; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECHNETIUM;

OXIC SEDIMENTS;

GROUND WATER; IRON; SEA WATER; TECHNETIUM;

DISSOLUTION; MOBILIZATION; RADIONUCLIDE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TECHNETIUM; VULNERABILITY;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CLAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW KINETICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SEA WATER INTRUSION; SEA WATER INUNDATION; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WATER FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; IRON; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEAWATER; TECHNETIUM; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84868532427     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3025935     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Lear, G.; McBeth, J. M.; Boothman, C.; Gunning, D. J.; Ellis, B. L.; Lawson, R. S.; Morris, K.; Burke, I. T.; Bryan, N. D.; Brown, A. P.; Livens, F. R.; Lloyd, J. R. Probing the biogeochemical behavior of technetium using a novel nuclear imaging approach Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44 (1) 156-162
2. Burke, I. T.; Boothman, C.; Lloyd, J. R.; Mortimer, R. J. G.; Livens, F. R.; Morris, K. Effects of progressive anoxia on the solubility of technetium in sediments Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39 (11) 4109-4116
3. Abdelouas, A.; Grambow, B.; Fattahi, M.; Andrès, Y.; Leclerc-Cessac, E. Microbial reduction of Tc-99 in organic matter-rich soils Sci. Total Environ. 2005, 336 (1-3) 255-268
4. Lloyd, J. R.; Sole, V. A.; Van Praagh, C. V. G.; Lovley, D. R. Direct and Fe(II)-mediated reduction of technetium by Fe(III)-reducing bacteria Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000, 66 (9) 3743-3749
5. Fredrickson, J. K.; Zachara, J. M.; Kennedy, D. W.; Kukkadapu, R. K.; McKinley, J. P.; Heald, S. M.; Liu, C.; Plymale, A. E. Reduction of TcO4- by sediment-associated biogenic Fe(II) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2004, 68 (15) 3171-3187
6. Burke, I. T.; Boothman, C.; Lloyd, J. R.; Livens, F. R.; Charnock, J. M.; McBeth, J. M.; Mortimer, R. J. G.; Morris, K. Reoxidation behavior of technetium, iron, and sulfur in estuarine sediments Environ. Sci. Technol. 2006, 40 (11) 3529-3535
7. McBeth, J. M.; Lear, G.; Lloyd, J. R.; Livens, F. R.; Morris, K.; Burke, I. T. Technetium reduction and reoxidation in aquifer sediments Geomicrobiol. J. 2007, 24 (3-4) 189-197
8. Zachara, J. M.; Heald, S. M.; Jeon, B. H.; Kukkadapu, R. K.; Liu, C. X.; McKinley, J. P.; Dohnalkova, A. C.; Moore, D. A. Reduction of pertechnetate [Tc(VII)] by aqueous Fe(II) and the nature of solid phase redox products Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2007, 71 (9) 2137-2157
9. Jaisi, D. P.; Dong, H.; Plymale, A. E.; Fredrickson, J. K.; Zachara, J. M.; Heald, S.; Liu, C. Reduction and long-term immobilization of technetium by Fe(II) associated with clay mineral nontronite Chem. Geol. 2009, 264 (1-4) 127-138
10. Lukens, W. W.; Bucher, J. J.; Shuh, D. K.; Edelstein, N. M. Evolution of technetium speciation in reducing grout Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39 (20) 8064-8070
11. Um, W.; Chang, H. S.; Icenhower, J. P.; Lukens, W. W.; Serne, R. J.; Qafoku, N. P.; Westsik, J. H.; Buck, E. C.; Smith, S. C. Immobilization of 99-technetium (VII) by Fe(II)-goethite and limited reoxidation Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45 (11) 4904-4913
12. Pepper, S. E.; Bunker, D. J.; Bryan, N. D.; Livens, F. R.; Charnock, J. M.; Pattrick, R. A. D.; Collison, D. Treatment of radioactive wastes: An X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of the reaction of technetium with green rust J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2003, 268 (2) 408-412
13. Sung, W.; Morgan, J. J. Kinetics and product of ferrous iron oxygenation in aqueous systems Environ. Sci. Technol. 1980, 14 (5) 561-568
14. Charette, M. A.; Sholkovitz, E. R. Oxidative precipitation of groundwater-derived ferrous iron in the subterranean estuary of a coastal bay. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2002, 29 (10), 1444.
15. EPA. Understanding Variation in Partition Coefficient, Kd Values; EPA 402-R-99-0043; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Washington, DC, 1999; Vol. II.
16. Moon, H. S.; Komlos, J.; Jaffe, P. R. Uranium reoxidation in previously bioreduced sediment by dissolved oxygen and nitrate Environ. Sci. Technol. 2007, 41 (13) 4587-4592
17. Komlos, J.; Peacock, A.; Kukkadapu, R. K.; Jaffe, P. R. Long-term dynamics of uranium reduction/reoxidation under low sulfate conditions Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2008, 72 (15) 3603-3615
18. Wilkins, M. J.; Livens, F. R.; Vaughan, D. J.; Beadle, I.; Lloyd, J. R. The influence of microbial redox cycling on radionuclide mobility in the subsurface at a low-level radioactive waste storage site Geobiology 2007, 5 (3) 293-301
19. Gimbert, L. J.; Haygarth, P. M.; Beckett, R.; Worsfold, P. J. Comparison of centrifugation and filtration techniques for the size fractionation of colloidal material in soil suspensions using sedimentation field-flow fractionation Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39 (6) 1731-1735
20. Lovely, D. R.; Phillips, E. J. P. Availability of ferric iron for microbial reduction in bottom sediments in freshwater tidal Potomac River Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1986, 52, 751-757
21. Stookey, L. L. Ferrozine-a new spectrophotometric reagent for iron Anal. Chem. 1970, 42 (7) 779-781
22. Mackay, D. M.; Roberts, P. V.; Cherry, J. A. Transport of organic contaminants in groundwater Environ. Sci. Technol. 1985, 19 (5) 384-392
23. Maset, E. R.; Sidhu, S. H.; Fisher, A.; Heydon, A.; Worsfold, P. J.; Cartwright, A. J.; Keith-Roach, M. J. Effect of organic co-contaminants on technetium and rhenium speciation and solubility under reducing conditions Environ. Sci. Technol. 2006, 40 (17) 5472-5477
24. Istok, J. D.; Senko, J. M.; Krumholz, L. R.; Watson, D.; Bogle, M. A.; Peacock, A.; Chang, Y. J.; White, D. C. In situ bioreduction of technetium and uranium in a nitrate-contaminated aquifer Environ. Sci. Technol. 2004, 38 (2) 468-475
25. Alliot, I.; Alliot, C.; Vitorge, P.; Fattahi, M. Speciation of technetium(IV) in bicarbonate media Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43 (24) 9174-9182
26. Paquette, J.; Lawrence, W. E. A spectrophotoelectrical study of the technetium(IV)technetium(III) couple in bicarbonate solutions Can. J. Chem. 1985, 63 (9) 2369-2373
27. Wildung, R. E.; Gorby, Y. A.; Krupka, K. M.; Hess, N. J.; Li, S. W.; Plymale, A. E.; McKinley, J. P.; Fredrickson, J. K. Effect of electron donor and solution chemistry on products of dissimilatory reduction of technetium by Shewanella putrefaciens Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000, 66 (6) 2451-2460
28. Gu, B. H.; Dong, W. M.; Liang, L. Y.; Wall, N. A. Dissolution of technetium(IV) oxide by natural and synthetic organic ligands under both reducing and oxidizing conditions Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45 (11) 4771-4777
29. Maes, A.; Geraedts, K.; Bruggeman, C.; Vancluysen, J.; Rossberg, A.; Hennig, C. Evidence for the interaction of technetium colloids with humic substances by X-ray absorption spectroscopy Environ. Sci. Technol. 2004, 38 (7) 2044-2051
30. Qafoku, N. P.; Zachara, J. M.; Liu, C. X.; Gassman, P. L.; Qafoku, O. S.; Smith, S. C. Kinetic desorption and sorption of U(VI) during reactive transport in a contaminated Hanford sediment Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39 (9) 3157-3165
31. Yin, J.; Haggerty, R.; Stoliker, D. L.; Kent, D. B.; Istok, J. D.; Greskowiak, J.; Zachara, J. M. Transient groundwater chemistry near a river: Effects on U(VI) transport in laboratory column experiments Water Resour. Res. 2011, 47, W04502
32. Moon, H. S.; Komlos, J.; Jaffe, P. R. Biogenic U(IV) oxidation by dissolved oxygen and nitrate in sediment after prolonged U(VI)/Fe(III)/SO42- reduction J. Contam. Hydrol. 2009, 105 (1-2) 18-27