Adsorption of cesium on minerals: a review

RM Cornell - Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, 1993 - Springer
The adsorption behavior of cesium on pure minerals is reviewed. Although this field has
been investigated intensively, the data are extremely variable in scope and interpretation …

Evaluation of bentonite, attapulgite, and kaolinite as eco-friendly adsorbents in the treatment of real radioactive wastewater containing Cs-137

WA Muslim, SK Al-Nasri, TM Albayati - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, batch adsorption experiments were investigated to remove the radioactive
isotope Cs-137 from the real radioactive wastewater resulting from the 1990 Gulf War. The …

Cesium sorption reversibility and kinetics on illite, montmorillonite, and kaolinite

CB Durrant, JD Begg, AB Kersting, M Zavarin - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding sorption and desorption processes is essential to predicting the mobility of
radionuclides in the environment. We investigate adsorption/desorption of cesium in both …

Comparison of linear and nonlinear forms of isotherm models for strontium sorption on a sodium bentonite

SC Tsai, KW Juang - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2000 - Springer
Sorption on bentonite will play an important role in retarding the migration of radionuclides
from a waste repository. Bentonite is characterized by low permeability, water swelling …

Modeling cesium retention onto Na-, K-and Ca-smectite: Effects of ionic strength, exchange and competing cations on the determination of selectivity coefficients

T Missana, A Benedicto, M García-Gutiérrez… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
Cesium (137 Cs) retention onto three homoionic smectites (Na-, K-and Ca-smectite),
obtained from natural Spanish FEBEX bentonite, was studied. Special emphasis was given …

Strontium and Cesium Adsorption on Exopolysaccharide-Modified Clay Minerals

H Zhang, S Larson, J Ballard, KA Runge… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The modification of clay minerals by exopolysaccharides (EPS) may significantly increase
their adsorption capacity for heavy metals. This study focused on the adsorption of EPS …

Cs+ sorption onto Kutch clays: Influence of competing ions

AS Semenkova, MV Evsiunina, PK Verma… - Applied Clay …, 2018 - Elsevier
The sorption of Cs+ onto raw Kutch clay (India) over a wide range of concentrations and pH
levels was studied and compared with its sorption onto the well-studied FEBEX clay (Spain) …

Adsorption behavior of strontium on binary mineral mixtures of montmorillonite and kaolinite

E Başçetin, G Atun - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2006 - Elsevier
The adsorption behavior of kaolinite and montmorillonite minerals and their mixtures in
respect of Sr ion were studied by means of a batch method using 90Sr as a radio tracer. The …

Diffusion and sorption properties of radionuclides in compacted bentonite

JW Yu, I Neretnieks - 1997 - inis.iaea.org
A literature review of diffusion and sorption properties of mainly ionic species in water
saturated compacted bentonite has been made. Experimental methods used to determine …

Adsorption of strontium and caesium onto an Na-MX80 bentonite: Experiments and building of a coherent thermodynamic modelling

B Siroux, C Beaucaire, M Tabarant, MF Benedetti… - Applied …, 2017 - Elsevier
Multi-site ion exchange modelling permits describing the different adsorption behaviour of
cations onto clay minerals. Considering several adsorption sites in the clay minerals' …