• 제목/요약/키워드: soluble uranium

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황산환원균 Dseulfovibrio desulfricans의 혐기배양에 의한 가용성 우라늄의 침전 (Precipitation of Soluble Uranium in Anaerobic Culture of Desulfovibrio desulfricans)

  • 조규성;주현규;다야마사히또;도네세쯔지;홍고야쓰히로
    • 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.269-275
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    • 1993
  • The aims of the present study are to examine the precipitation of uranyl ion in the culture of Desulfovibrio desulfricans for the sedimentary recovery of aqueous uranium. D. desulfricans had the highest utilization rate of lactate and precipitated iron ion in the three sulfate reducing bacteria. So, subsequent experiments were conducted using lactate as an energy source. The normal growth was observed with increased pH and lactate utilization. During the culture, the amounts of SO42- consumed and S2- produced in aqueous phase were 8.5 and 7.5 mmol/m3-broth, respectively.

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우라늄 광화작용(鑛化作用)에 기여(寄與)하는 유기물질(有機物質)의 역할(役割) (The role of organic matter associated with uranium mineralization)

  • 오천혁;김종환
    • 자원환경지질
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.319-329
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    • 1988
  • As a factor which can help to understand the genesis of (mata) sedimentary and/or hydrothermal uranium depisits, an interpretation of the role of organic matter associated with uranium mineralization, was attempted with the literature published up to the end of 1986. Laboratory studies, in which diageneis and metamorphism are artificially simulated, can help to elucidate how uranium with particular organic materials are formed and destroyed. Similarly, research involving a variety of techniques is needed to characterize both the soluble organic extracts (bitumen) and the insoluble organic matter (kerogen), separated from uranium ores and associated rocks. In the presence of clay minerals and amorphous oxy-hydroxde minerals, an understanding of the role of organic matter must be prudent and may require the incorporation of multidisciplinary approach (mineralogy, inorganic geochemistry ...).

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대전서남지대(大田西南地帶)에 있어서의 옥천대(沃川帶) 우라늄광상(鑛床)에 대(對)한 광물학적(鑛物學的) 및 지화학적(地化學的) 연구(硏究) (Mineralogical and Geochemical Studies of Uranium Deposits of the Okchon Group in Southwestern District off Taejon, Korea)

  • 윤석규
    • 자원환경지질
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    • 제17권4호
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    • pp.289-298
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    • 1984
  • Uraniferous black slates of the Okchon sequence occur in Koesan (northeast) through Miwon-Boun (middle) to the southwest off Taejon (southwest) within the Okchon fold belt. The Uraniferous balck slates in the southwest off Taejon are particularly well developed in Chubu (northeast) and Moksso-ri (middle) areas whereas they are less developed in Jinsan (southwest) area. The uraniferous beds range from less than a meter to 40 meters in thickness and range from less than 0.02% $U_3O_8$ (cut-off-grade) to 0.05% $U_3O_8$ in the southwestern district off Taejon. Electron microprobe analysis of uranium-minerals found in graphitic slate samples enables to estimate their major compositions semi-quantitatively so that uraninite, ferro-uranophane and chlopinite are tentatively identified. Uranium-minerals are closely associated with carbon and metal sulfides. Correlation analysis of trace element concentrations revealed that U and F.C., and U and Mo are lineary correlative respectively and their correlation coefficients are positively high whereas those of U and V, U and Mn, and U and Zr are negatively low, implying that uranium mineralization has been closely related with concentrations of carbon and molybdenum. Stable isotope analyses of pyrite sulfur range widely from +11.5% to -23.3% in ${\delta}^{34}S$ values whereas those of graphite carbon fall within a narrow range between -23.3% and -28.9% in ${\delta}^{13}C$ values. The wide range of ${\delta}^{34}S$ values suggests that the sulfur could be of meteoric origin rather than of igneous source. The narrow range of ${\delta}^{13}C$ values, which are close to those of coal, indicates that the graphite is organic carbon in origin. Therefore, it is concluded that the uranium mineralization in the Okchon sequence took place primarily in sedimentary environment rich in organic matter and sulfide ion, both of which served as the reducing agents to convert soluble uranyl complex to insoluble uranium dioxide.

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옥천대(沃川帶) 우라늄광층(鑛層)의 구조규제(構造規制) 및 지구화학적(地球化學的) 특성연구(特性硏究) (Lithologic and Structural Controls and Geochemistry of Uranium Deposition in the Ogcheon Black-Slate Formation)

  • 이대성;윤석규;이종혁;김정택
    • 자원환경지질
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    • 제19권spc호
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    • pp.19-41
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    • 1986
  • Structural, radioactive, petrological, petrochemical, mineralogical and stable isotopic study as well as the review of previous studies of the uranium-bearing slates in the Ogcheon sequence were carried out to examine the lithological and structural controls, and geochemical environment in the uranium deposition in the sequence. And the study was extended to the coal-bearing formation (Jangseong Series-Permian) to compare the geochemical and sedimentologic aspects of uranium chemistry between Ogcheon and Hambaegsan areas. The results obtained are as follows: 1. The uranium mineralization occurs in the carbonaceous black slates of the middle to lower Guryongsan formation and its equivalents in the Ogcheon sequence. In general, two or three uranium-bearing carbonaceous beds are found with about 1 to 1.5km stratigraphic interval and they extend from Chungju to Jinsan for 90km in distance, with intermittent igneous intrusions and structural Jisturbances. Average thickness of the beds ranges from 20 to 1,500m. 2. These carbonaceous slate beds were folded by a strong $F_1$-fold and were refolded by subsequent $F_1$-fold, nearly co-axial with the $F_1$, resulting in a repeated occurrence of similar slate. The carbonaceous beds were swelled in hing zones and were shrinked or thined out in limb by the these foldings. Minor faulting and brecciation of the carbonaceous beds were followed causing metamorphism of these beds and secondary migration and alteration of uranium minerals and their close associations. 3. Uranium-rich zones with high radioactive anomalies are found in Chungju, Deogpyong-Yongyuri, MiwonBoun, Daejeon-Geumsan areas in the range of 500~3,700 cps (corresponds to 0.017~0.087%U). These zones continue along strike of the beds for several tens to a few hundred meters but also discontinue with swelling and pinches at places that should be analogously developed toward underground in their vertical extentions. The drilling surveyings in those area, more than 120 holes, indicate that the depth-frequency to uranium rich bed ranging 40~160 meter is greater. 4. The features that higher radioactive anomalies occur particularly from the carbonaceous beds among the argillaceous lithologic units, are well demonstrated on the cross sections of the lithology and radioactive values of the major uranium deposits in the Ogcheon zone. However, one anomalous radioactive zone is found in a l:ornfels bed in Samgoe, near Daejeon city. This is interpreted as a thermal metamorphic effect by which original uranium contents in the underlying black slate were migrated into the hornfels bed. 5. Principal minerals of the uranium-bearing black slates are quartz, sericite, biotite and chlorite, and as to chemical composition of the black slates, $Al_2O_3$ contents appear to be much lower than the average values by its clarke suggesting that the Changri basin has rather proximal to its source area. 6. The uranium-bearing carbonaceous beds contain minor amounts of phosphorite minerals, pyrite, pyrrhotite and other sulfides but not contain iron oxides. Vanadium. Molybdenum, Barium, Nickel, Zirconium, Lead, Cromium and fixed Carbon, and some other heavy metals appear to be positive by correlative with uranium in their concentrations, suggesting a possibility of their genetic relationships. The estimated pH and Eh of the slate suggests an euxenic marine to organic-rich saline water environment during uranium was deposited in the middle part of Ogcheon zone. 7. The Carboniferous shale of Jangseong Series(Sadong Series) of Permian in Hambaegsan area having low radioactivity and in fluvial to beach deposits is entirely different in geochemical property and depositional environment from the middle part of Ogcheon zone, so-called "Pibanryong-Type Ogcheon Zone". 8. Synthesizing various data obtained by several aspects of research on uranium mineralization in the studied sequence, it is concluded that the processes of uranium deposition were incorporated with rich organic precipitation by which soluble uranyl ions, $U{_2}^{+{+}}$ were organochemically complexed and carried down to the pre-Ogcheon sea bottoms formed in transitional environment, from Red Sea type basin to Black Sea type basin. Decomposition of the organic matter under reducing conditions to hydrogen sulfide, which reduced the $UO{_2}^{+2}$ ions to the insoluble uranium dioxide($UO_2$), on the other side the heavy metals are precipitated as sulfides. 9. The EPMA study on the identification of uraninite and others and the genetic interpretation of uranium bearing slates by isotopic values of this work are given separately by Yun, S. in 1984.

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Feasibility Study on the Utilization of Mixed Oxide Fuel in Korean 900MWe PWR Core Through Conceptual Core Nuclear Design and Analysis

  • Joo, Hyung-Kook;Kim, Young-Jin;Jung, Hyung-Guk;Sohn, Dong-Seong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제29권4호
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    • pp.299-309
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    • 1997
  • The neutronic feasibility of typical Korean three-loop 900MWe class PWR core loaded with mixed oxide fuels for both annual and 18-month cycle strategies has been investigated as a means for spent fuel management. For this study, a method of determining equivalent plutonium content was developed under the equivalence concept which gives the same cycle length as uranium fuel. Optimal plutonium zoning within the MOX assembly was also designed with the aim of minimizing the peak md power. Conceptual core designs hate hen developed for equilibrium cycle with the following variations: annual and 18-month cycle, 1/3 and full MOX loading schemes, and typical and high moderation lattice. The analysis of key core physics parameters shows that in all cases considered satisfactory core designs seem to be feasible, though addition of control rod system and change in Technical Specification for soluble boron concentration are required for full MOX loading in order to meet the current design requirements.

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Iron hydrolysis and lithium uptake on mixed-bed ion exchange resin at alkaline pH

  • Olga Y. Palazhchenko;Jane P. Ferguson;William G. Cook
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권10호
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    • pp.3665-3676
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    • 2023
  • The use of ion exchange resins to remove ionic impurities from solution is prevalent in industrial process systems, including in the primary heat transport system (PHTS) purification circuit of nuclear power plants. Despite its extensive use in the nuclear industry, our general understanding of ion exchange cannot fully explain the complex chemistry in ion exchange beds, particularly when operated at or near their saturation limit. This work investigates the behaviour of mixed-bed ion exchange resin, saturated with species representative of corrosion products in a CANDU (Canadian Deuterium Uranium) reactor PHTS, particularly with respect to iron chemistry in the resin bed and the removal of lithium ions from solution. Experiments were performed under deaerated conditions, analogous to normal PHTS operation. The results show interesting iron chemistry, suggesting the hydrolysis of cation resin bound ferrous species and the subsequent formation of either a solid hydrolysis product or the soluble, anionic Fe(OH)3-.

Influence of Iron Phases on Microbial U(VI) Reduction

  • Lee, Seung-Yeop;Baik, Min-Hoon;Lee, Min-Hee;Lee, Young-Boo;Lee, Yong-Jae
    • 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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    • 제16권6호
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    • pp.58-65
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    • 2011
  • The bacterial uranium(VI) reduction and its resultant low solubility make this process an attractive option for removing U from groundwater. An impact of aqueous suspending iron phase, which is redox sensitive and ubiquitous in subsurface groundwater, on the U(VI) bioreduction by Shewanella putrefaciens CN32 was investigated. In our batch experiment, the U(VI) concentration ($5{\times}10^5M$) gradually decreased to a non-detectable level during the microbial respiration. However, when Fe(III) phase was suspended in solution, bioreduction of U(VI) was significantly suppressed due to a preferred reduction of Fe(III) instead of U(VI). This shows that the suspending amorphous Fe(III) phase can be a strong inhibitor to the U(VI) bioreduction. On the contrary, when iron was present as a soluble Fe(II) in the solution, the U(VI) removal was largely enhanced. The microbially-catalyzed U(VI) reduction resulted in an accumulation of solid-type U particles in and around the cells. Electron elemental investigations for the precipitates show that some background cations such as Ca and P were favorably coprecipitated with U. This implies that aqueous U tends to be stabilized by complexing with Ca or P ions, which easily diffuse and coprecipitate with U in and around the microbial cell.

금속이온의 흐름주입법에 의한 정량, 8-배위착물의 광학적 특성 및 중합체에 관한 연구(제1보): 계면활성제 존재하에서 Chrome Azurol S를 사용하여 우라늄 및 토륨이온의 흐름 주입법에 의한 분광광도 정량 (Studies on the Determination of Heavy Metal Ions by Flow Injection, the Photochemical Characterization and Polymerization of Eight-Coordinated Complex(Part I): Spectrophotometric Determination of Uranium and Thorium Ions by Flow Injection Analysis using Chrome Azurol S in the Presence of Surfactant)

  • 장주환;강삼우;손병찬;조광희
    • 분석과학
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    • 제8권1호
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 1995
  • 흐름주입법에 의해 분광광도법으로 U(VI) 및 Th(IV) 이온을 정량하였다. Chrome Azurol S는 양이온 계면활성제인 CTAB 존재하에서 U(VI) 및 Th(IV) 이온과 착물을 형성한다. 아세트산 완충용액에서 U(VI) 착물의 최대 흡수 파장은 pH 5.0에서 600nm이고 몰흡광계수는 약 $2.3{\times}10^5Lmol^{-1}cm^{-1}$이며, Th(IV) 착물의 최대 흡수파장은 pH 5.5에서 611nm이고 몰흡광계수는 약 $3.8{\times}10^5Lmol^{-1}cm^{-1}$였다. FIA에 의한 U(VI) 및 Th(IV)의 검정곡선은 0.1~0.8ppm 범위에서 직선 관계를 보였고, 이 검정곡선은 상관계수는 0.9960 및 0.9930이었다. 검출한계(S/N)는 U(VI)에 대하여는 20ppb이고, Th(IV)에 대하여는 15ppb였다. 상대표준편차는 시료 0.4ppm에 대하여 각각 ${\pm}1.8%$${\pm}2.1%$이고 시료의 분석속도는 약 $50hr^{-1}$이었다.

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충주지역 흑색셰일 분포지역에서의 잠재적 독성원소들의 분산과 부화 (Dispersion and Enrichment of Potentially Toxic Elements in the Chungjoo Area Covered with Black Shales in Korea)

  • 이진수;전효택;김경웅
    • 자원환경지질
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    • 제29권4호
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    • pp.495-508
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    • 1996
  • This study had three purposes: (1) to investigate dispersion and enrichment level of potentially toxic elements; (2) to identify uranium-bearing minerals in black shales; and (3) to assess the chemical speciation of heavy metals in soils and sediments. Rock, surface soil and stream sediment samples were collected in the Chungjoo area covered with black shales in Korea. These samples were analyzed for multi-elements using INAA and ICP-AES. The maximum abundance of U in black shales is 56 ppm and radioactivity counts up to 240CPM. Molybdenum, V, Ba, Cu, and Pb are enriched in black shales and most of soils show high concentrations of U, Mo, Ba, Cu, Pb and Zn. Concentrations of potentially toxic elements decrease in the order of mountain soil > farmland soil > paddy soil. Enrichment index of soils and sediments are calculated and higher than 1.0 in the black shale area with the highest value of 6.1. In order to identify U-bearing minerals, electron probe micro analysis was applied, and uraninite and brannerite in black shale were found. Uraninite grains are closely associated with monazite or pyrite with the size of $2{\mu}m$ to $10{\mu}m$ in diameter whereas brannerite occurs as $50{\mu}m$ euhedral grains. With the results of sequential extraction scheme, residual fractions of Cu, Pb and Zn in soils are mainly derived from weathering of black shale but Cu, Pb and Zn in sediments are present as non-residual fractions. Lead is predominantly present as oxidizable phase in soils whereas Zn is in exchageable/water-acid soluble phase in sediments.

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국내 고함량 우라늄 지하수의 분포와 기원에 관한 지질학적 고찰 (Geological Review on the Distribution and Source of Uraniferous Grounwater in South Korea)

  • 황정
    • 지질공학
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    • 제28권4호
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    • pp.593-603
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    • 2018
  • 고함량 우라늄 지하수의 대부분은 경기육괴와 옥천대의 쥬라기 화강암 지질에서 그리고 일부는 옥천대의 백악기 화강암 지질에서 산출되며, 영남육괴의 쥬라기 화강암 지질과 경상분지의 백악기 화강암 지질에서는 거의 산출되지 않는다. 경기육괴와 옥천대의 쥬라기 화강암과 옥천대의 백악기 화강암은 근원 마그마내 지각물질의 비율이 높고 고분화된 특성을 보이는데, 이러한 암석-성인적 특성은 고함량 우라늄 지하수가 해당 암상에서 우선적으로 산출되는 지질학적 주요 요인이다. S-type의 과알루미너질의 고분화 암상인 대전지역의 복운모 화강암에서는 높은 U-함량과 낮은 Th/U ratio 그리고 용해성 광물인 우라니나이트가 산출된다. 이러한 특성은 복운모 화강암이 지하수 내 우라늄의 유용한 공급원임을 지시하는 광물-지구화학적 주요 요인이다. 여러 지역의 지질도폭에서 쥬라기의 흑운모 화강암과 복운모 화강암을 서로 구분하지 않고 흑운모 화강암으로 기재한 경우가 많음을 고려하면, 고함량 우라늄 지하수가 산출되는 흑운모 화강암 지질에서도 복운모 화강암의 영향이 있을 것으로 추정된다.