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dc.contributor.authorHandley-Sidhu, Stephanie
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Science and Engineeringen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-28T14:12:25Z
dc.date.available2011-06-28T14:12:25Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifierNot availableen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/500
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Depleted uranium (DU) is a by-product of the nuclear fuel industry and is used in antitank penetrators due to its high density, self-sharpening and pyrophoric properties. Military activities have left a legacy of DU waste in terrestrial and marine environments and presently there are no clean up procedures in place. In order to understand the fate of this DU, long term (500 days) microcosm experiments simulating key environments have been carried out for the first time to investigate the mechanisms and rates of DU corrosion as a function of the biogeochemical and environmental conditions. The corrosion of DU was investigated in microcosms simulating organic-rich marine sediments of high and medium salinity.

dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Plymouthen_US
dc.titleBiogeochemical controls on the corrosion and fate of depleted uraniumen_US
dc.typeThesis
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.24382/4474


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