Published August 1981
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Journal article
Plutonium suspension from seawater
Creators
- 1. UKAEA Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell. Environmental and Medical Sciences Div.
Description
Concentration of plutonium and other nuclides in sea spray could have important consequences where low-level waste is discharged to sea. Laboratory experiments show that plutonium is concentrated at the sea surface and in sea spray. In the spray the concentration of plutonium was enriched by one or two orders of magnitude relative to sodium. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Health Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 41
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Series
- Health Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 279-283
- ISSN
- 0017-9078
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 13650149
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Descriptors DEI
- AEROSOLS; COASTAL WATERS; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; LEVELS; LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; MARINE DISPOSAL; PLUTONIUM; QUANTITY RATIO; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SEAWATER; SODIUM; SPRAYS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; ALKALI METALS; COLLOIDS; DISPERSIONS; ELEMENTS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MANAGEMENT; METALS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SOLS; SURFACE WATERS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; WATER