Long-term study of uranium release could improve remediation strategies
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 06:30
in Earth & Climate
Uranium poses a serious risk of groundwater contamination at the Hanford Site. But most previous experimental studies addressing this important issue were performed over short-time periods, focusing on the uranium that is quickly released from sediments to groundwater. This study combines modeling and laboratory experiments to assess uranium release under flow conditions over a time period long enough to evaluate the transport behavior of all of the uranium in sediment samples collected from the Hanford Site.