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Influence of Groundwater Composition on Glass Leaching and Actinide Speciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

G. Bidoglio ,
P. Offermann ,
A. De Plano  and
G. P. Lazzari
G. Bidoglio
Affiliation:
Commission of the European Communities, Joint Research Centre, Radiochemistry Division, 21020 Ispra (Va) - Italy
P. Offermann
Affiliation:
Hahn-Meitner Institut für Kernforschung, 1000 Berlin, FRG
A. De Plano
Affiliation:
Commission of the European Communities, Joint Research Centre, Radiochemistry Division, 21020 Ispra (Va) - Italy
G. P. Lazzari
Affiliation:
Commission of the European Communities, Joint Research Centre, Radiochemistry Division, 21020 Ispra (Va) - Italy
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Abstract

Flow-leaching studies were conducted using borosilicate glass beads containing 241-Am, 237-Np and 238-Pu. The leachates were a bicarbonate groundwater and a brine. Tests were carried out unger oxidizing and reducing conditions. In bicarbonate groundwater (2.6 × 10−3 M NaHCO3, pH 8.4) under oxic conditions, steady-state leach-rates were found to increase in the order Pu∼Am<Np, with Np species leached congruently with sodium. Direct identification of Np carbonate complexes in the leachate was carried out by. electromigration. A reversed order of leachability was obtained in a reducing environment. In this case, Pu was found to be associated with particulate matter. In a salt brine leachate (5.4 M NaCl, pH∼6) a periodic cycle of increasing-decreasing concentrations was observed under reducing conditions. This was found to be dependent upon the redox state of actinides. Radionuclide adsorption into an unstable gel layer was postulated.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 112: Symposium P – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XI , 1987 , 621
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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