Adsorption of UO22+ in surfaces of SrTiO3

The internationally accepted solution in the administration of the high level radioactive residuals is the multi barrier deep geologic storage which should guarantee that do not exist flights neither transfer of residuals to the atmosphere in time periods of at least 10,000 years. In this confinement type exists the interest to study materials that can be used as engineering barriers as well as the diverse interaction phenomena between these and the radionuclides. In this work it is presented the physicochemical characterization and evaluation of the surface properties and of adsorption of U(VI) in form of UO2(NO3)2 on the SrTiO3 like possible candidate for contention barrier in the deep geologic confinement. The made studies showed that the SrTiO3 is stable to temperatures between 0 and 800 C. At the same time it could settle down that the maximum sorption percentages are reached to near pH to the isoelectric point, where chemical species prevail in solution of the type UO2(X)-. (Author)