Published 2001 | Version v1
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Bentonite as a backfill material for shallow land repositories

  • 1. Process Development Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)

Description

Two commercially available indigenous bentonite samples were evaluated for their cesium and strontium sorption properties in distilled water and surface water. By converting them into sodium form, the distribution coefficients for both cesium (I) and strontium (II) increased. Sodium bentonite was recommended because of high sorption capacity for Cs(I), Mg(II) and Sr(II) for use as backfill material in shallow land repositories where cement waste form containing Cs, Sr and Be wastes are disposed. (author)

Part of:
Proceedings of BRNS-DAE national symposium on nuclear and radiochemistry

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Imprint Place
Mumbai (India)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of BRNS-DAE national symposium on nuclear and radiochemistry
Imprint Pagination
587 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 523-524

Conference

Title
5. national symposium on nuclear and radiochemistry
Acronym
NUCAR 2001
Dates
7-10 Feb 2001
Place
Pune (India)

Optional Information

Notes
2 refs., 1 fig., 1 tab.