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Sorption of Cs and Sr radionuclides within natural carbonates

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Understanding the mobility of radiocesium and radiostrontium within geological environment is important from ‘deep geological repository system’—safety assessment point of view. Cs and Sr radionuclide sorption studies have been carried out with a stalagmite sample collected from Lesser—Himalayas. Detailed microstructural studies, backed up by micro-Raman and LIBS analyses, identified three different domains within the sample; constituted of microcrystalline calcite, botryoidal aragonite and palisadic calcite respectively. Experimental studies showed that both the radionuclides exhibit moderate to low sorption coefficients within all the different domains of stalagmite under acidic environment.

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Authors thank Dr. G.K. Dey, Associate Director, Materials Group, BARC, Dr. Ajay K Singh, RPCD, BARC and Prof. K.S. Valdiya, Prof. B.S. Kotlia, Prof. C.P. Rajendran and Prof. Kusala Rajendran for their support. Two anonymous reviewers and Handling Editor are profusely thanked for their very valuable and constructive suggestions. The work was funded by Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. JS acknowledges DST SERC Fast Track Scheme (No. SR/FTP/ES-97/2009) for financial assistances.

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    Pranesh Sengupta & P. Mahadik

  2. Geodynamics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, 560064, India

    Jaishri Sanwal

  3. Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400 085, India

    P. Mathi & Jahur A. Mondal

  4. Fuel Reprocessing Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400 085, India

    N. Dudwadkar & P. M. Gandhi

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Sengupta, P., Sanwal, J., Mathi, P. et al. Sorption of Cs and Sr radionuclides within natural carbonates. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 312, 19–28 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5206-1

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