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- Title
Decontamination of radioactive cesium in soil.
- Authors
Yanaga, M.; Oishi, A.
- Abstract
Agricultural soil containing radioactive cesium was decontaminated using an extraction method involving aqueous potassium solutions. Results demonstrated that the potassium solution could extract radioactive cesium from soil artificially contaminated with Cs, although extraction rate decreased as time after contamination increased. However, visual examination of radioactivity distribution in soil samples significantly contaminated by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant showed that radioactive cesium also existed as insoluble particles. Therefore, reducing the volume of radioactive wastes generated from soil decontamination requires a physical decontamination method combined with chemical treatment.
- Subjects
CESIUM content of soils; DECONTAMINATION (From gases, chemicals, etc.); RADIOACTIVE substances in soils; AQUEOUS solutions; RADIOACTIVE decontamination
- Publication
Journal of Radioanalytical & Nuclear Chemistry, 2015, Vol 303, Issue 2, p1301
- ISSN
0236-5731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10967-014-3541-z