Study of the interaction of uranium and polonium in soils Authors Dídac Serraïma-López Miquel Vidal Anna Rigol DOI: 10.2436/20.2003.01.154 Keywords: Soil, uranium, polonium, sorption, Kd prediction models. Abstract Naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) contain naturally occurring radionuclides (NOR), such as uranium and polonium. Certain industrial activities can generate NORM waste, and the leaching of the radionuclides which they contain may pose a risk of soil and water resource contamination. For this reason, it is essential to study how NORs interact with soils and to predict their mobility. This study identifies the main soil properties that may contribute to the sorption of uranium and polonium in soils and proposes univariate correlations of the solid-liquid distribution coefficient (Kd) on the basis of these properties. Statistical probability functions are also used to propose more likely Kd values in different scenarios. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 23 (2024) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Revista de la Societat Catalana de Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Catalan Society of Chemistry (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Revista de la Societat Catalana de Química.Authors answer to Catalan Society of Chemistry for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Catalan Society of Chemistry declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
