Plutonium removal and diurnal variations of suspended sediment concentrations in the Great Miami River
Effluent release experiments previously conducted downstream of the industrial outflal at Mound Laboratory have demonstrated that /sup 238/Pu which enters the aquatic environment as dissolved waste is rapidly adsorbed by suspended solids in the effluent pulse and that the dissolved/particulate distribution of /sup 238/Pu between release events congruent to 5 x 10/sup -2/./sup 3/ Reasonable estimates of the annual transport of /sup 239/ /sup 240/Pu based upon long-term discharge and sediment loading data have been reported for a large subwatershed in the upper reaches of the Great Miami River Basin. In this report data are given which characterize the short-term variability of suspended particulate transport downriver of a canal system contaminated with /sup 238/Pu.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 8503571
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-78-65(Pt.3); TRN: 80-008138
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: In: Radiological and Environmental Research Division: ecology. Annual report, January-December 1978.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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SEDIMENTS
SUSPENSIONS
WATERSHEDS
ACTINIDE ISOTOPES
ACTINIDE NUCLEI
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DISPERSIONS
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STREAMS
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US DOE
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