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The effects of corrosion product colloids on actinide transport

Abstract

This report assesses the possible effects of colloidal corrosion products on the transport of actinides from the near field of radioactive waste repositories. The desorption of plutonium and americium from colloidal corrosion products of iron and zirconium was studied under conditions simulating a transition from near-field to far-field environmental conditions. Desorption of actinides occurred slowly from the colloids under far-field conditions. Measurements of particle stability showed all the colloids to be unstable in the near field. Stability increased under far-field conditions or as a result of the evolution of the near field. Migration of colloids from the near field is unlikely except in the presence of organic materials. (Author).
Publication Date:
Nov 01, 1991
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
DOE-HMIP-RR-91.017; AEA-D and R-0237.
Reference Number:
SCA: 052002; 540230; PA: AIX-25:003614; EDB-94:011989; ERA-19:003129; NTS-94:014088; SN: 93001120804
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Nov 1991
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; AMERICIUM; COLLOIDS; CORROSION PRODUCTS; DESORPTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PH VALUE; PLUTONIUM; TIME DEPENDENCE; 052002; 540230; WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
Sponsoring Organizations:
Department of the Environment, London (United Kingdom). Her Majesty`s Inspectorate of Pollution
OSTI ID:
10109726
Research Organizations:
AEA Decommissioning and Radwaste, Harwell (United Kingdom)
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE94609416; CNN: Contract PECD-7/9/514; TRN: GB9302607003614
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
GBN
Size:
41 p.
Announcement Date:
Jun 30, 2005

Citation Formats

Gardiner, M P, Smith, A J, and Williams, S J. The effects of corrosion product colloids on actinide transport. United Kingdom: N. p., 1991. Web.
Gardiner, M P, Smith, A J, & Williams, S J. The effects of corrosion product colloids on actinide transport. United Kingdom.
Gardiner, M P, Smith, A J, and Williams, S J. 1991. "The effects of corrosion product colloids on actinide transport." United Kingdom.
@misc{etde_10109726,
title = {The effects of corrosion product colloids on actinide transport}
author = {Gardiner, M P, Smith, A J, and Williams, S J}
abstractNote = {This report assesses the possible effects of colloidal corrosion products on the transport of actinides from the near field of radioactive waste repositories. The desorption of plutonium and americium from colloidal corrosion products of iron and zirconium was studied under conditions simulating a transition from near-field to far-field environmental conditions. Desorption of actinides occurred slowly from the colloids under far-field conditions. Measurements of particle stability showed all the colloids to be unstable in the near field. Stability increased under far-field conditions or as a result of the evolution of the near field. Migration of colloids from the near field is unlikely except in the presence of organic materials. (Author).}
place = {United Kingdom}
year = {1991}
month = {Nov}
}