Recent advances in aqueous actinide chemistry and thermodynamics

M Altmaier, X Gaona, T Fanghänel - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
This Review presents an overview of recent advances in aqueous actinide chemistry and
thermodynamics. It addresses actinides from thorium to curium and covers three main areas …

Actinide colloids and particles of environmental concern

C Walther, MA Denecke - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
The radioecological relevance of actinide particles 1 did not first become a matter of concern
following the nuclear accidents at Fukushima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island. Public and …

Phosphate and illite colloid pose a synergistic risk of enhanced uranium transport in groundwater: A challenge for phosphate immobilization remediation of uranium …

X Wei, X Shi, M Yang, Q Tan, Z Xu, B Ma, D Pan, W Wu - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The phosphorus-containing reagents have been proposed to remediate the uranium
contaminated sites due to the formation of insoluble uranyl phosphate mineralization …

The INE-Beamline for actinide science at ANKA

J Rothe, S Butorin, K Dardenne, MA Denecke… - Review of scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Since its inauguration in 2005, the INE-Beamline for actinide research at the synchrotron
source ANKA (KIT North Campus) provides dedicated instrumentation for x-ray …

Quantitative Separation of Monomeric U(IV) from UO2 in Products of U(VI) Reduction

DS Alessi, B Uster, H Veeramani… - … science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
The reduction of soluble hexavalent uranium to tetravalent uranium can be catalyzed by
bacteria and minerals. The end-product of this reduction is often the mineral uraninite, which …

Redox and environmentally relevant aspects of actinide (IV) coordination chemistry

LS Natrajan, AN Swinburne, MB Andrews… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2014 - Elsevier
The redox chemistry of the actinide elements plays a central role in many aspects of nuclear
fission technology including the reprocessing of spent fuel, safe disposal strategies and in …

The missing pieces of the PuO 2 nanoparticle puzzle

E Gerber, AY Romanchuk, I Pidchenko, L Amidani… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The nanoscience field often produces results more mystifying than any other discipline. It
has been argued that changes in the plutonium dioxide (PuO2) particle size from bulk to …

Colloid-borne forms of tetravalent actinides: a brief review

H Zänker, C Hennig - Journal of contaminant hydrology, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Tetravalent actinides, An (IV), are usually assumed to be little mobile in near-neutral
environmental waters because of their low solubility. However, there are certain …

High energy resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy study of uranium in varying valence states

T Vitova, KO Kvashnina, G Nocton, G Sukharina… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
A high energy resolution x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy study
on U 4+(UO 2), U 5+([UO 2 Py 5][KI 2 Py 2]), and U 6+[UO 2 (NO 3) 2 (H 2 O) 6] …

Aqueous chemistry of Ce (IV): estimations using actinide analogues

R Marsac, F Réal, NL Banik, M Pédrot, O Pourret… - Dalton …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The prediction of cerium (Ce) aqueous speciation is relevant in many research fields.
Indeed, Ce compounds are used for many industrial applications, which may require the …