Effect of activities at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory on the water quality of the Snake River Plain aquifer in the Magic Valley study

SummaryThe behavior of strontium and cesium on soil from the Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC) of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), located on the Snake River Plain of southern Idaho, USA, was investigated using sequential aqueous extractions and batch sorption methods over six orders of magnitude in aqueous ion concentration. Sequential extractions revealed that most Sr is retained in the operationally-defined ion exchangeable and carbonate fractions, while Cs is predominantly found in the residual fraction. Strontium sorption was reversible, while Cs was not, except at the lowest concentrations. Freundlich isotherms can describe sorption of both metals at low aqueous concentrations, but Langmuir isotherms were needed to describe Cs and Sr sorption over the entire range used in this study. Slightly higher sorption was observed for both when experiments were repeated on soil that was treated to remove carbonates.

Geologic Controls of Hydraulic Conductivity in the Snake River Plain Aquifer At and Near the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho

10.2172/765526 ◽

1999 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

S. R. Anderson ◽

M. A. Kuntz ◽

L. C. Davis

Keyword(s):

Hydraulic Conductivity ◽

Snake River Plain ◽

Snake River ◽

Environmental Laboratory ◽

River Plain ◽

Geologic Controls

Determination of Background Uranium Concentration in the Snake River Plain Aquifer under the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory's Radioactive Waste Management Complex

10.2172/910725 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Molly K. Leecaster ◽

L. Don Koeppen ◽

Gail L. Olson

Keyword(s):

Radioactive Waste ◽

Waste Management ◽

Uranium Concentration ◽

Snake River Plain ◽

Snake River ◽

Radioactive Waste Management ◽

Environmental Laboratory ◽

River Plain

Geologic controls of hydraulic conductivity in the Snake River Plain aquifer at and near the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho

10.3133/wri994033 ◽

1999 ◽

Keyword(s):

Hydraulic Conductivity ◽

Snake River Plain ◽

Snake River ◽

Environmental Laboratory ◽

River Plain ◽

Geologic Controls

Geohydrology of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho

Fact Sheet ◽

10.3133/fs13097 ◽

1997 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brennon R. Orr

Keyword(s):

Snake River Plain ◽

Snake River ◽

Environmental Laboratory ◽

River Plain

The quality of our Nation's waters: groundwater quality in the Columbia Plateau and Snake River Plain basin-fill and basaltic-rock aquifers and the Hawaiian volcanic-rock aquifers, Washington, Idaho, and Hawaii, 1993-2005

Circular ◽

10.3133/cir1359 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael G. Rupert ◽

Charles D. Hunt ◽

Kenneth D. Skinner ◽

Lonna M. Frans ◽

Barbara Mahler

Keyword(s):

Groundwater Quality ◽

Volcanic Rock ◽

Basaltic Rock ◽

Snake River Plain ◽

Snake River ◽

Columbia Plateau ◽

River Plain ◽

Basin Fill

Hydrologic Conditions and Distribution of Selected Constituents in Water, Snake River Plain Aquifer, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho, 1996 through 1998

10.2172/769365 ◽

2000 ◽

Author(s):

R. C. Bartholomay ◽

B. J. Tucker ◽

L. C. Davis ◽

M. R. Greene

Keyword(s):

Snake River Plain ◽

Snake River ◽

Water Snake ◽

Environmental Laboratory ◽

River Plain ◽

Hydrologic Conditions

99Tc,236U, and237Np in the Snake River Plain Aquifer at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho

Environmental Science & Technology ◽

10.1021/es980390d ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 32 (24) ◽

pp. 3875-3881 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

T. M. Beasley ◽

P. R. Dixon ◽

L. J. Mann

Keyword(s):

Snake River Plain ◽

Snake River ◽

Environmental Laboratory ◽

River Plain