A case study of cesium sorption onto concrete materials and evaluation of wash agents: Implications for wide area recovery.

Aggregate Alkali Ammonium Cesium Concrete Decontamination

Journal

Journal of environmental chemical engineering
ISSN: 2213-2929
Titre abrégé: J Environ Chem Eng
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101673966

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Jun 2019
Historique:
entrez: 24 7 2020
pubmed: 24 7 2020
medline: 24 7 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

To support the viability of a wash-down approach to mitigating nuclear contamination, this study presents a characterization of the aggregate of a common concrete by optical microscopy and the sorption-desorption characteristics of cesium from these into potential wash solutions. Various minerals with weathered surfaces displayed strong affinity for 137Cs with an effective partition coefficient

Identifiants

pubmed: 32699771
doi: 10.1016/j.jece.2019.103140
pmc: PMC7375493
mid: NIHMS1607742
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Subventions

Organisme : Intramural EPA
ID : EPA999999
Pays : United States

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Auteurs

Michael D Kaminski (MD)

Strategic Security Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.

Carol J Mertz (CJ)

Strategic Security Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.

James Jerden (J)

Strategic Security Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.

Michael Kalensky (M)

Strategic Security Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.

Nadia Kivenas (N)

Strategic Security Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.

Matthew Magnuson (M)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Homeland Security Research Center, 26W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH, 45268, USA.

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