Radionuclide interactions with soil and rock media. Volume 1: processes influencing radionuclide mobility and retention, element chemistry and geochemistry, conclusions and evaluation. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:5613681

Ames, L L; Rai, D

The interactions of nineteen radionuclides with soil and rock media in the literature to 1977 were reviewed. The radionuclides were those of the elements americium, antimony, cerium, cesium, cobalt, curium, europium, iodine, neptunium, plutonium, promethium, radium, ruthenium, strontium, technetium, thorium, tritium, uranium and zirconium. The review included a brief summary of natural soil and rock distributions, chemistry, solid and solution equilibria and laboratory and field adsorption and migration results. It was concluded that most of the values for radionuclide-geologic media distribution coefficients in the literature were inadequate due to failure to include a comprehensive description of system conditions. Areas for future work suggested by the review included determination of adsorption mechanisms and kinetics, influence of redox potential on antimony, iodine, neptunium, plutonium, technetium and uranium migration potential, influence of organic ligands on radionuclide migration potential, thermodynamic data determinations of solid and solution species, generation of distribution coefficient data that can be used in a comparative mode and maintenance of the data in a bank with general access available.

• Research Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5613681
• Report Number(s): PB-292460
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ACTINIDE ISOTOPES
ADSORPTION
ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES
ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES
AMERICIUM ISOTOPES
ANTIMONY ISOTOPES
CERIUM ISOTOPES
CESIUM ISOTOPES
CHEMISTRY
COBALT ISOTOPES
CURIUM ISOTOPES
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DISPERSIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
EUROPIUM ISOTOPES
GEOCHEMISTRY
IODINE ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
MANAGEMENT
MASS TRANSFER
MIXTURES
NEPTUNIUM ISOTOPES
PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES
PROMETHIUM ISOTOPES
RADIOISOTOPES
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
RADIUM ISOTOPES
RARE EARTH ISOTOPES
REDOX POTENTIAL
ROCKS
RUTHENIUM ISOTOPES
SOILS
SOLIDS
SOLUTIONS
SORPTION
STRONTIUM ISOTOPES
TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES
THERMODYNAMICS
THORIUM ISOTOPES
TRITIUM COMPOUNDS
TRITIUM OXIDES
URANIUM ISOTOPES
ZIRCONIUM ISOTOPES