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USE OF BATCH TESTS AS A SCREENING TOOL FOR RADIONUCLIDE SORPTION CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES, HANFORD, WSHINGTON, U.S.A.
Citation:
Puls, R., L. Ames, AND J. McGarrah. USE OF BATCH TESTS AS A SCREENING TOOL FOR RADIONUCLIDE SORPTION CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES, HANFORD, WSHINGTON, U.S.A. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-89/018 (NTIS PB89236285).
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The U.S. Department of Energy was studying the feasibility of locating a high-level radioactive waste repository in basalt at the Hanford site in south-central Washington. his is a saturated site where ground water transport of radionuclides away from a repository is the mechanism for release to the accessible environment. orption as defined herein is the predominant means by which the movement of radionuclides are retarded in a ground water flow system. his work presents preliminary laboratory batch testing results in the context of the entire site system sorption characterization strategy. n anoxic experimental approach was used with basalt flow top core samples recovered from depths of 915 m (3000 ft) below the earth surface. he kinetics of sorption were relatively slow and increased in the order U