[HTML][HTML] Cesium separation from radioactive waste by extraction and adsorption based on crown ethers and calixarenes

J Wang, S Zhuang - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Cesium is a major product of uranium fission, which is the most commonly existed
radionuclide in radioactive wastes. Various technologies have been applied to separate …

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 …

Disproportionately High Contributions of 60 Year Old Weapons-137Cs Explain the Persistence of Radioactive Contamination in Bavarian Wild Boars

F Stäger, D Zok, AK Schiller, B Feng… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Radionuclides released from nuclear accidents or explosions pose long-term threats to
ecosystem health. A prominent example is wild boar contamination in central Europe, which …

Determination, Separation and Application of 137Cs: A Review

Y Cao, L Zhou, H Ren, H Zou - International Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the context of the rapid development of the world's nuclear power industry, it is necessary
to establish background data on radionuclides of different samples from different regions …

Composite nanoarchitectonics: Alginate beads encapsulating sepiolite/magnetite/Prussian blue for removal of cesium ions from water

N Boukhalfa, M Darder, M Boutahala… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Multicomponent sepiolite/magnetite/Prussian blue (PB) were prepared following the
nanoarchitectonics approach by incorporating PB pigment to sepiolite fibers previously …

Plasma source mass spectrometry for radioactive waste characterisation in support of nuclear decommissioning: a review

IW Croudace, BC Russell, PW Warwick - Journal of Analytical Atomic …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The efficient characterization of nuclear waste materials represents a significant challenge
during nuclear site decommissioning, with a range of radionuclides requiring measurement …

A review on the use of lichens as a biomonitoring tool for environmental radioactivity

J Anderson, N Lévesque, F Caron, P Beckett… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lichens have been widely used as a biomonitoring tool to record the distribution and
concentration of airborne radioactivity and pollutants such as metals. There are limitations …

Determination of Characteristic vs Anomalous 135Cs/137Cs Isotopic Ratios in Radioactively Contaminated Environmental Samples

D Zok, T Blenke, S Reinhard, S Sprott… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A contamination with the ubiquitous radioactive fission product 137Cs cannot be assigned
per se to its source. We used environmental samples with varying contamination levels from …

Developing accelerator mass spectrometry capabilities for anthropogenic radionuclide analysis to extend the set of oceanographic tracers

K Hain, M Martschini, F Gülce, M Honda… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent major advances in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) at the Vienna
Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA) regarding detection efficiency and isobar …

Selective separation of radionuclides from environmental matrices using proprietary solid-phase extraction systems: A review

MF Alam, ZA Begum, Y Furusho, H Hasegawa… - Microchemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Precise and rapid determination of radionuclides (RNs) in the environment is essential for
environmental monitoring, radiological protection, and radioactive waste management due …