No measurable changes in 238U/235U due to desorption-adsorption of U(VI) from groundwater at the Rifle, Colorado, integrated field research challenge site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2535-2541

  Shiel, Alyssa E ^a   Laubach, Parker G ^a   Johnson, Thomas M ^a   Lundstrom, Craig C ^a   Long, Philip E ^b   Williams, Kenneth H ^b  

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

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; FIELD RESEARCH; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; MINERAL SURFACES; PORE WATERS; URANIUM CONCENTRATION;

ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; GUNS (ARMAMENT); ISOTOPES; URANIUM;

GROUNDWATER;

BICARBONATE; GROUND WATER; HYDROGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE; URANIUM;

ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; FIELD SURVEY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

ADSORPTION; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; DESORPTION; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; PH; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADSORPTION; BICARBONATES; COLORADO; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

COLORADO; RIFLE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875349277     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303913y     Document Type: Article

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