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Separation of radiostrontium from seawater using various types of sorbents

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The paper presents the results of separating radioactive strontium from seawater with commercially available local-produced sorbents (Modix, FD, MDM, DMM, Termoksid ZK, SRM-Sr) and the sorbent of our fabrication (MnO2–impregnated fiber) under static and dynamic conditions. Under the batch conditions, the distribution coefficients of strontium in seawater are determined. Under the flow conditions, output curves of strontium sorption at different seawater flow rates were obtained; the dynamic exchange capacity and total dynamic exchange capacity of the sorbents for strontium were calculated. The data obtained make it possible to calculate the amount of sorbent required to process a seawater sample of a given volume for determining the specific activity of strontium radionuclides in seawater.

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Acknowledgements

The reported study was funded by RFBR, Project Number 19-33-60007 (competition “Perspective”), the state assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (themes: “Oceanological processes” No. 0555-2021-0004 and “Research of mechanisms for managing production processes in biotechnological complexes to develop scientific foundations for obtaining biologically active substances and technical products of marine genesis” No. AAAA-A18-118021350003-6), Sevastopol State University grant to invite leading researchers (project 42-01-09/169/2021-7).

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  1. Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kapitanskaya Str., 2, Sevastopol, Russian Federation, 299011

    Nikolay Alekseevich Bezhin & Illarion Igorevich Dovhyi

  2. Sevastopol State University, University Street, 33, Sevastopol, Russian Federation, 299053

    Nikolay Alekseevich Bezhin & Ivan Gundarovich Tananaev

  3. A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky Prospect, 2, Sevastopol, Russian Federation, 299011

    Sergey Viktorovich Kapranov & Nikolay Ivanovich Bobko

  4. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 31, korp. 4, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119071

    Vitaliy Vital’yevich Milyutin, Viktor Olegovich Kaptakov, Evgeny Anatolievich Kozlitin & Ivan Gundarovich Tananaev

  5. Far Eastern Federal University, Sukhanov Str., 8, Vladivostok, Russian Federation, 690091

    Ivan Gundarovich Tananaev

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Bezhin, N.A., Dovhyi, I.I., Kapranov, S.V. et al. Separation of radiostrontium from seawater using various types of sorbents. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 328, 1199–1209 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-07718-8

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