Neptunium(V) Coprecipitation with Calcite

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• 作者：Frank Heberling ; Melissa A. Denecke ; Dirk Bosbach
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：January 15, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：42
• 期：2
• 页码：471 - 476
• 全文大小：207K
• 年卷期：v.42,no.2(January 15, 2008)
• ISSN：1520-5851

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Coprecipitation experiments of Np(V) and U(VI) with calcite were performed in mixed-flow reactors under steady state conditions at room temperature for up to 400 h at precipitation rates of 1.0 × 10⁻⁸ to 6.8 × 10⁻⁸ mol/(m² s). The saturation index with respect to calcite varied between 0.04 and 0.95. Initial Np(V) or U(VI) concentrations were 1 µmol/L, 0.01 mol/L NaCl was used as background electrolyte, and pH ranged from 7.8 to 12.8. Partition coefficients for Np(V) were in the range of 0.5−10.3, compared to 0.02 for U(VI). Np L_III and U L_III EXAFS were used to characterize the local structural environment of the incorporated actinides. In the case of U(VI), the structural environment is not unambiguously characterized. Our data suggest that Np(V) ions occupy calcium lattice sites. The two axial oxygen atoms of the linear neptunyl moiety substitute two calcite carbonate groups in the first coordination sphere. Thus, four carbonate groups coordinate the neptunyl-ion in a monodentate fashion with four equatorial oxygen atoms (O_eq) at 2.4 Å and associated carbon atoms (C) at 3.2 Å. The interatomic distances indicate slight structural relaxation of the carbonate groups from their ideal sites. A similar structural model has been reported for U(VI) incorporated into natural calcite.