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Effect of colloids on transfer of radionuclides by subsurface water

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The fluid transfer of radionuclides in the geologic medium is considered under conditions when radionuclides are contained in fluids not only as solutes but also as colloids. The effect of colloidal transport of radionuclides on the rate of spreading of radioactive contamination in an underground medium is estimated, with assessment of this effect in mathematical models describing the transport of radionuclides by subsurface water. For this purpose, the exchange of radionuclides between subsurface water, colloid, and an immobile solid phase is considered, taking into account the precipitation of colloidal particles on both the immobile solid phase and other colloidal particles and their recurrent mobilization into the liquid phase. It is noted that, in real colloidal transfer, the heterogeneity of the geologic medium and colloidal particles in subsurface water is of great importance. The known models of colloidal transfer of radionuclides are evaluated on the basis of the analysis performed.

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Original Russian Text © V.I. Malkovsky, A.A. Pek, 2009, published in Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii, 2009, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 91–106.

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Malkovsky, V.I., Pek, A.A. Effect of colloids on transfer of radionuclides by subsurface water. Geol. Ore Deposits 51, 79–92 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701509020019

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