Pu(V) transport through Savannah River Site soils - an evaluation of a conceptual model of surface- mediated reduction to Pu (IV)

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-56

  Powell, Brian A ^a   Kaplan, Daniel I ^b   Serkiz, Steven M ^b,c   Coates, John T ^a   Fjeld, Robert A ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Plutonium; Reduction; Sediment; SRS; Transport

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; MINERALOGICAL PROPERTIES; PIT DISASSEMBLY AND CONVERSION FACILITIES; SRS; SUBSURFACE CONDITIONS; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT; TRANSPORT;

EXPERIMENTS; MIXED OXIDE FUELS; OXIDATION; PLUTONIUM; REDUCTION; SOIL TESTING;

SEDIMENTS;

HUMIC ACID; MINERAL; ORGANIC MATTER; PLUTONIUM; TRITIUM; URANIUM;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; FILTRATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; ION PAIR CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; PH; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

SAVANNAH RIVER SITE; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

PLUTONIUM; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SRS; TRANSPORT;

ADSORPTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HAZARDOUS WASTE SITES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SOUTH CAROLINA; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84896740432     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.10.009     Document Type: Article

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