Radium isotopes as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) tracers: Review and recommendations

J Garcia-Orellana, V Rodellas, J Tamborski… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is now recognized as an important process of the
hydrological cycle worldwide and plays a major role as a conveyor of dissolved compounds …

Advances in the management of radioactive wastes and radionuclide contamination in environmental compartments: a review

AO Adeola, KO Iwuozor, KG Akpomie… - … geochemistry and health, 2023 - Springer
Several anthropogenic activities produce radioactive materials into the environment.
According to reports, exposure to high concentrations of radioactive elements such as …

New perspectives on the use of 224Ra/228Ra and 222Rn/226Ra activity ratios in groundwater studies

M Diego-Feliu, V Rodellas, MW Saaltink… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The naturally occurring Ra isotopes (223 Ra; T 1/2= 11.4 d, 224 Ra; T 1/2= 3.66 d, 226 Ra; T
1/2= 1,600 y, and 228 Ra; T 1/2= 5.7 y) and Rn (222 Rn; T 1/2= 3.82 d) have been widely …

Selective radionuclide co-sorption onto natural minerals in environmental and anthropogenic conditions

R Ram, C Kalnins, MI Pownceby, K Ehrig… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic activities can redistribute the constituents of naturally occurring radioactive
materials (NORM), posing potential hazards to populations and ecosystems. In the present …

Novel insights into the long-term retardation of GMZ01 to U (VI): based on molecular dynamics and numerical simulation

W Yang, D Zhang, X Liu, R Chen - Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 - Elsevier
The long-term retardation performance of Gaomiaozi Na-bentonite (GMZ01) to uranium (U
(VI)) is still technically challenging due to its high toxicity and the complexity of …

[HTML][HTML] Best practices for predictions of radionuclide activity concentrations and total absorbed dose rates to freshwater organisms exposed to uranium mining/milling

RR Goulet, L Newsome, H Vandenhove… - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Predictions of radionuclide dose rates to freshwater organisms can be used to evaluate the
radiological environmental impacts of releases from uranium mining and milling projects …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the distribution coefficient (Kd) of some selected heavy metals over the last decade (2012-2021)

CD Seidou, T Wang, MMRB Espoire, Y Dai… - Journal of Geoscience …, 2022 - scirp.org
This review synthesizes the methods for estimating the distribution coefficient (Kd) and
provides a compilation of Kd values for five heavy metals (As, Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn) based on …

Fabrication of electrospun cellulose/ball-milled bone char membranes for fast, efficient and selective sorption of aquatic U (VI)

J Li, T Cherkasova, YA Nikolaevich, P Yuan - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
Powdered sorbents in aqueous solutions suffer from the deficiency in the solid/liquid
separation even the sorption capacities were higher than their bulk or less-dispersed forms …

High-efficiency selective enrichment of U (VI) from aqueous solutions by amidoxime-functionalized siliceous mesocellular foams

L Chen, P Yuan - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Siliceous mesocellular foams (MCFs) with high surface area, large pore volume and ordered
mesoporous structure have a great potential in the capture of pollutants. To achieve the …

Kinetics of uranium (VI) lability and solubility in aerobic soils

M Izquierdo, SD Young, EH Bailey, NMJ Crout, S Lofts… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Uranium may pose a hazard to ecosystems and human health due to its chemotoxic and
radiotoxic properties. The long half-life of many U isotopes and their ability to migrate raise …