Stable and radioactive cesium: a review about distribution in the environment, uptake and translocation in plants, plant reactions and plants' potential for …

A Burger, I Lichtscheidl - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Radiocesium in water, soil, and air represents a severe threat to human health and the
environment. It either acts directly on living organisms from external sources, or it becomes …

What can we learn about soil erosion from the use of 137Cs?

AJ Parsons, IDL Foster - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
The radioisotope 137Cs has been extensively used to provide information about soil
erosion. The technique relies upon a number of assumptions that this review evaluates in …

Nano-FeS incorporated into stable lignin hydrogel: A novel strategy for cadmium removal from soil

Y Liu, Y Huang, C Zhang, W Li, C Chen, Z Zhang… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Strategies for reducing cadmium (Cd) content in polluted farmland soils are currently limited.
A type of composite with nanoparticles incorporated into a hydrogel have been developed to …

Interlayer collapse affects on cesium adsorption onto illite

A Benedicto, T Missana… - Environmental science & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Cesium adsorption onto Illite has been widely studied, because this clay is especially
relevant for Cs migration-retention in the environment. The objective of this study is to …

Plants as drivers of rock weathering

K Dontsova, Z Balogh‐Brunstad… - … : Ecological drivers and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The transformation of rock to soil affects the habitability of Earth because of its role in
regulating climate and nourishing ecosystems. Soil formation has a strong biotic component …

Selective separation of Cs-contaminated clay from soil using polyethylenimine-coated magnetic nanoparticles

JH Kim, SM Kim, IH Yoon, SJ Choi, I Kim - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
We evaluated the feasibility of using magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) coated with
polyethylenimine (PEI), a cationic polymer, to remediate radioactive contaminated soil by …

Application of Prussian blue nanoparticles for the radioactive Cs decontamination in Fukushima region

D Parajuli, A Kitajima, A Takahashi, H Tanaka… - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cs decontamination efficiencies of the composites of iron hexacyanoferrate nanoparticles
were investigated in comparison with commercial Prussian blue and natural zeolite. In pure …

A robust and parsimonious model for caesium sorption on clay minerals and natural clay materials

MA Cherif, A Martin-Garin, F Gerard, O Bildstein - Applied Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Caesium (Cs) is one of the most studied radionuclides in the fields of nuclear waste disposal
and environmental sciences. The overall objective of this work is to improve the tools …

Root endophytic bacteria of a 137Cs and Mn accumulator plant, Eleutherococcus sciadophylloides, increase 137Cs and Mn desorption in the soil

K Yamaji, S Nagata, T Haruma, T Ohnuki… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
We found that root endophytes of 137 Cs accumulator plant produce siderophores, resulting
in the desorption of 137 Cs from the contaminated soil collected at Fukushima, Japan. We …

Effective and efficient desorption of Cs from hydrothermal-treated clay minerals for the decontamination of Fukushima radioactive soil

X Yin, N Horiuchi, S Utsunomiya, A Ochiai… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
In light of the widespread Cs pollution that may follow nuclear disasters, the
decontamination of post-accident soil has earned much attention due to the difficulty of Cs …