
doi: 10.2172/10167166
In order to more accurately predict the rates and mechanisms of radionuclide migration from low-level waste disposal facilities via groundwater transport, ongoing studies are being conducted at field sites at Chalk River Laboratories to identify and characterize the chemical speciation of mobile, long-lived radionuclides migrating in groundwaters. Large-volume water sampling techniques are being utilized to separate and concentrate radionuclides into particular, cationic, anionic, and nonionic chemical forms. Most radionuclides are migrating as soluble, anionic species that appear to be predominantly organoradionuclide complexes. Laboratory studies utilizing anion exchange chromatography have separated several anionically complexed radionuclides, e.g., {sup 60}Co and {sup 106}Ru, into a number of specific compounds or groups of compounds. Further identification of the anionic organoradionuclide complexes is planned utilizing high resolution mass spectrometry. Large-volume ultra-filtration experiments are characterizing the particulate forms of radionuclides being transported in these groundwaters.
Experimental Data 540230, Ground Water, Radionuclide Migration, Cobalt, Low-Level Radioactive Wastes, Ruthenium 106, 54 Environmental Sciences, Radioactive Materials Monitoring And Transport, Environmental Transport
Experimental Data 540230, Ground Water, Radionuclide Migration, Cobalt, Low-Level Radioactive Wastes, Ruthenium 106, 54 Environmental Sciences, Radioactive Materials Monitoring And Transport, Environmental Transport
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