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Review
. 2016 Mar:153:237-244.
doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.12.016. Epub 2016 Jan 22.

The pentavalent actinide solution chemistry in the environment

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The pentavalent actinide solution chemistry in the environment

Sylvain Topin et al. J Environ Radioact. 2016 Mar.

Abstract

With regard to environmental monitoring of certain nuclear facilities, pentavalent actinides, in particular neptunium and plutonium, play a key role, as the chief soluble, mobile forms of actinides. In the past five years, investigations carried out by hyphenating capillary electrophoresis to ICP-MS (CE-ICP-MS) have allowed a number of hitherto unknown thermodynamic data to be determined for Np(V) and Pu(V) interactions with the chief environmentally abundant anions. For the first time, data were provided for Pu(V) interactions with carbonate, sulfate, oxalate, chloride, and nitrate ions, allowing the Np(V)/Pu(V) analogy to be verified experimentally. Knowledge of Np(V) chemistry, especially in carbonate, and sulfate media, was also refined. These CE-ICP-MS studies, combined with some earlier findings, have brought about a renewal in the knowledge of An(V) chemistry in solution.

Keywords: Actinide; Complexation; Migration; Speciation.

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