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Soil column experiments have been conducted to treat liquid wastes from hospitals containing125I. Three sorbent samples of laterite clay materials with different contents of iron oxides (goethite, α-FeOOH) and hydroxides were used to sorb anionic iodate. Post-treatment on effluent wastes with sodium hypochlorite (redox reagent) oxidized the iodide to the desirable iodate ion. Effluent pH after treatment ranges between 4.8 to 5.8, which does not vary much from the initial effluent pH of 4.5 before treatment. Results show that 90 to 97% sorption of iodine radionuclides with a decontamination factor ranges between 10–32 was obtained after the first two hours of experiments. Concentration has decreased from the initial 10 Bq/ml to concentration ranges of 0.3 to 0.9 Bq/ml. Batch experiments conducted using different sorbent masses of soils, show that there was a drop in sorption as the mass of soils fell below approximately 0 to 0.25 g. The sorption remains constant with the soil mass above 0.25 g. Another batch experiment using a different concentration shows that the adsorption capacity of the laterite soil was 1.1 μCi/g. The adsorption is about 96% with a distribution coefficient of 1170.
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Hakimi, S.S. Improved iodine-125 removal in anionic form of iodate by column method using laterite soil. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 214, 117–131 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02164812
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