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M. Desai Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Environmental Studies Section, Health Physics Division 400 085 Bombay India

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Abstract  

Sea water is observed to be a good desorbing agent for137Cs from marine sediments. Investigations on the sites of137Cs binding and their abundance by desorption over extended periods indicated that, whatever the time of contact of sorption,137Cs has three modes of desorption: fast component with desorption half-time of 30–50 min, medium component with desorption half-time of 25–50 h and slow component with desorption half-time of 31–112 days. These are expected to be sites of ion exchange, slower exchange and trapped Cs in the clay mineral layer lattices.

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Journal of Radionalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Language English
Size A4
Year of
Foundation
1968
Volumes
per Year
1
Issues
per Year
12
Founder Akadémiai Kiadó
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Address
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher's
Address
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
CH-6330 Cham, Switzerland Gewerbestrasse 11.
Responsible
Publisher
Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN 0236-5731 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2780 (Online)