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Science 26 June 1981:
Vol. 212. no. 4502, pp. 1506 - 1509
DOI: 10.1126/science.212.4502.1506
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Characterization of Plutonium in Maxey Flats Radioactive Trench Leachates

JESS M. CLEVELAND 1 and TERRY F. REES 1

1 U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225

Plutonium in trench leachates at the Maxey Flats radioactive waste disposal site exists as dissolved species, primarily complexes of the tetravalent ion with strong organic ligands such as ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. The complexes are not sorbed well by sediment and are only partly precipitated by ferric hydroxide. These results indicate the importance of isolating radioactive waste from organic matter.

Submitted on December 3, 1980


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