Mobile uranium(IV)-bearing colloids in a mining-impacted wetland

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yuheng ^a   Frutschi, Manon ^a   Suvorova, Elena ^a   Phrommavanh, Vannapha ^b   Descostes, Michael ^b   Osman, Alfatih A A ^c   Geipel, Gerhard ^c   Bernier Latmani, Rizlan ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

AGGREGATE; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELEMENT MOBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; MINING; POREWATER; SURFACE WATER; URANIUM; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; SOIL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFILTRATION; URANIUM MINE; WETLAND; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FRANCE;

COLLOIDS; FRANCE; MINING; RIVERS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WETLANDS;

EID: 84890632434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3942     Document Type: Article

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