Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Preliminary study of the migration of technetium in soil under hydrous conditions

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5845349
The sorption of technetium compared to sodium, cesium, and strontium by a common agricultural soil was measured using a column method. As expected, no sorption of Tc occurred under conditions that substantially removed Na/sup +/, Cs/sup +/, and Sr/sup + +/. High radioactivity levels were used to establish absorption profiles over six orders of magnitude of tracer concentration. Behavior of initially dry columns was compared with that of initially water-saturated columns; the results were not quantitatively different although there was a qualitative difference in the appearance of the profiles. Technetium tracked the moisture content of the column and hence migrated at the veloccity of the aqueous medium.
Research Organization:
California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
5845349
Report Number(s):
UCRL-52832
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English