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

Chemical species of migrating radionuclides at a shallow land low-level radioactive-waste burial site

Conference ·
OSTI ID:6124319
A research program at the Maxey Flats, Kentucky (U.S.A.) waste disposal site has been undertaken to define the chemical species contributing to the migration or retention of radionuclides contained in waste buried at that site. An experimental trench and inert atmosphere sampling wells were installed to sample water for determination of the chemical species of migrating radionuclides. The organic ligands are studied by gas chromatography, steric exclusion chromatography and mass spectrometry; and the data correlated with specific radionuclide counting data to determine precise chemical species. Preliminary data are reported in the text.
Research Organization:
Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
6124319
Report Number(s):
PNL-SA-9122; CONF-810722-9; ON: DE81028011
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English