A preliminary assessment on the use of biochar as a soil additive for reducing soil-to-plant uptake of cesium isotopes in radioactively contaminated environments
Abstract
A series of K d tracer batch experiments were conducted in this paper to assess the absorptive-desorption properties of Biochar as a potential agent to selectively sequester labile soil Cs or otherwise help reduce the uptake of Cs isotopes into plants. A parallel experiment was conducted for strontium. Fine-grained fractionated Woodlands tree Biochar was found to have a relatively high affinity for Cs ions (K d > 100) relative to coral soil (K d < 10) collected from the Marshall Islands. The Biochar material also contains an abundance of K (and Mg). Finally, these findings support a hypothesis that the addition of Biochar as a soil amendment may provide a simple yet effective method for reducing soil-to-plant transfer of Cs isotopes in contaminated environments.
- Authors:
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Marshall Islands Dose Assessment and Radioecology Program. Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
- Univ. of Limerick (Ireland). Carbolea Group. CES Dept.
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Marshall Islands Dose Assessment and Radioecology Program. Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry; Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States)
- Gatusi Solutions, Divide, CO (United States)
- New Dark Earth, Oneida, WI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security (AU), Office of Health and Safety
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1366902
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-669077
Journal ID: ISSN 0236-5731
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 307; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0236-5731
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; Marshall Islands; Biochar; remediation; 137Cs; cesium distribution coefficients; Kd values
Citation Formats
Hamilton, Terry F., Martinelli, Roger E., Kehl, Steven R., Hayes, Michael H. B., Smith, Iris J., Peters, Sandra K. G., Tamblin, Michael W., Schmitt, Cindi L., and Hawk, Daniel. A preliminary assessment on the use of biochar as a soil additive for reducing soil-to-plant uptake of cesium isotopes in radioactively contaminated environments. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1007/s10967-015-4520-8.
Hamilton, Terry F., Martinelli, Roger E., Kehl, Steven R., Hayes, Michael H. B., Smith, Iris J., Peters, Sandra K. G., Tamblin, Michael W., Schmitt, Cindi L., & Hawk, Daniel. A preliminary assessment on the use of biochar as a soil additive for reducing soil-to-plant uptake of cesium isotopes in radioactively contaminated environments. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4520-8
Hamilton, Terry F., Martinelli, Roger E., Kehl, Steven R., Hayes, Michael H. B., Smith, Iris J., Peters, Sandra K. G., Tamblin, Michael W., Schmitt, Cindi L., and Hawk, Daniel. Mon .
"A preliminary assessment on the use of biochar as a soil additive for reducing soil-to-plant uptake of cesium isotopes in radioactively contaminated environments". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4520-8. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1366902.
@article{osti_1366902,
title = {A preliminary assessment on the use of biochar as a soil additive for reducing soil-to-plant uptake of cesium isotopes in radioactively contaminated environments},
author = {Hamilton, Terry F. and Martinelli, Roger E. and Kehl, Steven R. and Hayes, Michael H. B. and Smith, Iris J. and Peters, Sandra K. G. and Tamblin, Michael W. and Schmitt, Cindi L. and Hawk, Daniel},
abstractNote = {A series of K d tracer batch experiments were conducted in this paper to assess the absorptive-desorption properties of Biochar as a potential agent to selectively sequester labile soil Cs or otherwise help reduce the uptake of Cs isotopes into plants. A parallel experiment was conducted for strontium. Fine-grained fractionated Woodlands tree Biochar was found to have a relatively high affinity for Cs ions (K d > 100) relative to coral soil (K d < 10) collected from the Marshall Islands. The Biochar material also contains an abundance of K (and Mg). Finally, these findings support a hypothesis that the addition of Biochar as a soil amendment may provide a simple yet effective method for reducing soil-to-plant transfer of Cs isotopes in contaminated environments.},
doi = {10.1007/s10967-015-4520-8},
journal = {Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry},
number = 3,
volume = 307,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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