Solution speciation of plutonium and americium at an Australian legacy radioactive waste disposal site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 10045-10053

  Ikeda Ohno, Atsushi ^a,b,c   Harrison, Jennifer J ^b   Thiruvoth, Sangeeth ^b   Wilsher, Kerry ^b   Wong, Henri K Y ^b   Johansen, Mathew P ^b   Waite, T David ^a   Payne, Timothy E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AQUEOUS SPECIATION; MANAGEMENT OPTIONS; MOBILE COLLOIDS; PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONATION; SOLUTION SPECIATION; SUB-MICRON SIZE RANGE; SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA; THERMOCHEMICAL MODELING;

AMERICIUM;

AMERICIUM; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; COLLOIDS; HAZARDOUS WASTE SITES; PARTICLE SIZE; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL; SOLUTIONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84906860958     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es500539t     Document Type: Article

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