Technical guidance for performance assessment (PA) of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) sites is currently dependent upon experimental retardation factors (K{sub D}'s) to predict radionuclide transport. Accurate predictions of waste transport or retardation will require mechanistic models of radionuclide sorption so as to be applicable to a wide range of soil/groundwater environments. To that end, we have investigated Cs{sup +}, Sr{sup +}, and Ba{sup 2+} sorption on several clay and Fe-oxide minerals. Relative metal binding strengths for montmorillonite clay decrease from Ba{sup 2+} to Sr{sup +}, which is similar to that sorption trend noticed for kaolinite. Molecular dynamics simulations for kaolinite …
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Technical guidance for performance assessment (PA) of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) sites is currently dependent upon experimental retardation factors (K{sub D}'s) to predict radionuclide transport. Accurate predictions of waste transport or retardation will require mechanistic models of radionuclide sorption so as to be applicable to a wide range of soil/groundwater environments. To that end, we have investigated Cs{sup +}, Sr{sup +}, and Ba{sup 2+} sorption on several clay and Fe-oxide minerals. Relative metal binding strengths for montmorillonite clay decrease from Ba{sup 2+} to Sr{sup +}, which is similar to that sorption trend noticed for kaolinite. Molecular dynamics simulations for kaolinite suggest that Cs{sup +} is sorbed at aluminol (010) edge sites as an inner-sphere complex and weakly sorbed as an outer-sphere complex on (001) basal surfaces. Sorption is thought to occur on similar sites for smectite clays, however, the basal plane residual charge and its increased basal plane exposure should have a greater influence on metal sorption. On the other hand, phase transformation kinetics (e.g., ferrihydrite to goethite) is a very important control of metal sorption and resorption for Fe-oxides/hydroxides. These results provide a basis for understanding and predicting metal sorption on complex soil minerals.
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Anderson, H. L.; Brady, P. V.; Cygan, R. T.; Gruenhagen, S. E.; Nagy, K. L. & Westrich, H. R.Cs, Sr, and Ba Sorption on Clays and Fe-Oxides,
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