Advances in Environmental Research

Volume 4, Number 2, 2015, pages 135-142

DOI: 10.12989/aer.2015.4.2.135

Absorption/desorption of uranium on iron-bearing soil mineral surface

Seonjin Ha, Daeseung Kyung and Woojin Lee

Abstract

In this study, we evaluated the absorption/desorption of uranium (U) in pure soil environment using continuous column reactor. We additionally investigated the absorption/desorption mechanism of U on vivianite surface in molecular scale using quantum calculation. We observed that below 0.1 <i>

Key Words

uranium; absorption/desorption; vivianite; column test; quantum calculation

Address

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Korea.