Skip to main content
Log in

Actinide and lanthanum toxicity towards aCitrobacter sp.: Uptake of lanthanum and a strategy for the biological treatment of liquid wastes containing plutonium

  • Published:
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

References

  • Allard B (1981) Solubilities of actinides in neutral or basic solutions. In: Edelstein N M (ed) Actinides in Perspective, Pergamon, Oxford, pp 553–580,

    Google Scholar 

  • Allard B, Rydberg J (1983) Behaviour of plutonium in natural waters. In: Camall W T, Choppin G R (eds) Plutonium Chemistry. Am Chem Soc Symp Ser 216: 275–295.

  • Allard B, Kipatsi H, Liljenzin J O (1980) Expected species of uranium, neptunium and plutonium in neutral aqueous solutions. J Inorg Nucl Chem 42: 1015–1027.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bell J T, Toth L M, Friedman H A (1983) Photochemistry of aqueous plutonium solutions In: Carnall W T, Choppin G R (eds) Plutonium Chemistry. Am Chem Soc Symp Ser 216: 263–274.

  • Bulman R A (1978) Chemistry of plutonium and the transuranics in the biosphere. Struct Bond 34: 39–77.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bulman R A, Baker T E, Baker S T (1987) Investigations of interactions of transuranics and cerium with humates. Sci To Environ 62: 213–218.

    Google Scholar 

  • Buppelman K, Magirius S, Lierse Ch, Kim J I (1986) Radiolytic oxidation of americium(III) to americium(IV) and plutonium(IV) to plutonium(VI) in saline solution. J Less Conm Met 122: 329–336.

    Google Scholar 

  • Choppin G R (1980) Inner vs outer-sphere complexation of lanthanide(III) and actinide(III) ions In: Edelstein N M (ed) Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry and Spectroscopy. Am Chem Soc Symp Ser 131: 173–181.

  • Choppin G R, Allard B (1985) Complexes of actinides with naturally occurring compounds In: Freeman A J, Keller C (eds). Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of the Actinides. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 407–421.

    Google Scholar 

  • Depoorter G L, Rofer-Depoorter C K (1980) Application of photochemical techniques to actinide separation processes. In: Navratil J D, Schulz W W (eds) Actinide Separations. Am Chem Soc Symp Ser 117: 267–276.

  • Hambling S G, Macaskie L E, Dean A C R (1987) Phosphatase synthesis in aCitrobacter sp. growing in continuous culture. J Gen Microbiol 133: 2743–2749.

    Google Scholar 

  • Macaskie L E, Dean A C R (1984) Cadmium accumulation by aCitrobacter sp. J Gen Microbiol 130: 53–62.

    Google Scholar 

  • Macaskie L E, Dean A C R (1989) Microbial mstabolism, desolubilization and deposition of heavy metals: mstal uptake by immobilized cells and application to the detoxification of liquid wastes. In: Mizrahi A (ed) Advances in Biotechnological Processes Vol 12. Alan R. Liss, New York, pp 159–201.

    Google Scholar 

  • Macaskie L E, Blackmore J D, Empson R M (1988) Phosphatase overproduction and enhanced uranium accumulation by a stable mutant of aCitrobacter sp. isolated by a novel method. FEMS Microbiol Lett 55: 157–162.

    Google Scholar 

  • Milyukova M S, Gusev N I, Sentyurin I G, Sklyarenko I S (1969). Analytical Chemistry of Plutonium. Ann-Arbor, London, pp 37–38.

  • Rinehart R W (1954) Spectrophotometric determination of some rare earths and yttrium with alizarin red S. Anal Chem 26: 1820–1822.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ryabchikov D I, Ryabukhin V A (1970) Analytical Chemistry of Yttrium and the Lanthanide Elements. Ann-Arbor, London, pp 89–92.

  • Toth L M, Bell J T, Friedman H A (1980) Photochemistry of the actinides. In: Navratil J D, Schulz W W (eds) Actinide Separations. Am Chem Soc Symp Ser 117: 253–266.

  • Udal'tsova N I (1970) Chemico-analytical properties of uranium and its compounds. In: Palei P N (compiler) and Vinogradov A P (ed). Analytical Chemistry of Uranium. Ann-Arbor, London, pp 5–27.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Plummer, E.J., Macaskie, L.E. Actinide and lanthanum toxicity towards aCitrobacter sp.: Uptake of lanthanum and a strategy for the biological treatment of liquid wastes containing plutonium. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 44, 173–180 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01700133

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01700133

Keywords

Navigation