[HTML][HTML] Uranium mobility in organic matter-rich sediments: A review of geological and geochemical processes

SA Cumberland, G Douglas, K Grice, JW Moreau - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Uranium (U) is of enormous global importance because of its use in energy generation,
albeit with potential environmental legacies. While naturally occurring U is widespread in the …

Nuclear fuel in a reactor accident

PC Burns, RC Ewing, A Navrotsky - science, 2012 - science.org
Nuclear accidents that lead to melting of a reactor core create heterogeneous materials
containing hundreds of radionuclides, many with short half-lives. The long-lived fission …

Nuclear waste from small modular reactors

LM Krall, AM Macfarlane… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Small modular reactors (SMRs; ie, nuclear reactors that produce< 300 MWelec each) have
garnered attention because of claims of inherent safety features and reduced cost. However …

Uranium: the nuclear fuel cycle and beyond

BMT Costa Peluzo, E Kraka - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes the recent developments regarding the use of uranium as nuclear
fuel, including recycling and health aspects, elucidated from a chemical point of view, ie …

Magnetically modified hydroxyapatite nanoparticles for the removal of uranium (VI): Preparation, characterization and adsorption optimization

HH El-Maghrabi, AA Younes, AR Salem… - Journal of hazardous …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, magnetically modified nanomaterials have gained a great interest in the field of
wastewater remediation. In this regard, the present work introduces a facile microwave …

Scientific basis for efficient extraction of uranium from seawater. I: understanding the chemical speciation of uranium under seawater conditions

F Endrizzi, CJ Leggett, L Rao - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the prospective recovery of uranium from seawater has become a topic of
interest owing to the increasing demand for nuclear fuel worldwide and because of efforts to …

[HTML][HTML] Oxidation-hydration weathering of uraninite: the current state-of-knowledge

J Plasil - Journal of Geosciences, 2014 - jgeosci.org
Plášil,J. 2014, Oxidation-hydration weathering of uraninite: the... Journal of Geosciences, 59,
99-114. Journal of GEOsciences (Formerly Journal of the Czech Geological Society) < previous …

Mineralogy and crystallography of uranium

SV Krivovichev, J Plášil - 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Uranium minerals have been known since the discovery of U by Martin Heinrich Klaproth
1789, in when he obtained yellow powder of UO 3 from Saxonian pitchblende. However …

Uranium (VI) sorption by multiwalled carbon nanotubes from aqueous solution

II Fasfous, JN Dawoud - Applied Surface Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Sorption of uranium (VI) from aqueous solutions onto Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
(MWCNTs) has been studied under varying experimental conditions of initial uranium …

Application of surface complexation modeling on adsorption of uranium at water-solid interface: A review

Y Sun, Y Li - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Precise prediction of uranium adsorption at water-mineral interface is of great significance
for the safe disposal of radionuclides in geologic environments. Surface complexation …