BARC/PUB/2016/0950

 
 

Adsorption of Ru, Ce and Eu radionuclides within naturally precipitated polycrystalline calcium carbonate under acidic environment

 
     
 
Author(s)

Sanwal, J.; Dudwadkar, N. L.; Thirumurugan, A.; Tripathi, S. C.; Gandhi, P. M.; Satyam, P. V.; Sengupta, P.
(FRD;MSD)

Source

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2016. Vol. 309 (2): pp. 751-760

ABSTRACT

106Ru, 144Ce and 152+154Eu radiotracers sorption experiments (pH: 1–6) have been carried out with polycrystalline columnar/microcrystalline calcite and aragonite obtained from a stalagmite of Dharamjali cave,India. The different domains of the sample were powdered and thoroughly studied using electron microscopic and X-ray spectroscopic techniques. Both 106Ru and 144Ce exhibited higher sorption within calcite varieties compared to aragonite and increased with rising pH, while it showed reverse relation in case of 152+154Eu. Further, it is noted that aragonite offers the highest K d values for 152+154Eu, Whereas 106Ru and 144Ce prefer calcite.

 
 
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