The deep geological disposal concept is widely accepted by the scientific community for the
storage of high activity level nuclear waste. It uses a multi-barrier system to isolate …

Within the context of the clay barrier concept for underground nuclear waste disposal,
montmorillonite and bentonite have been widely used as reference materials for sorption. In …

Bentonite has been widely studied in nuclear waste management because of its special
physicochemical properties. In this work, the sorption of Ni (II) from aqueous solution onto …

The surface reactivity of clay minerals remains challenging to characterize because of a
duality of adsorption surfaces and mechanisms that does not exist in the case of simple …

Clay mineral-rich sedimentary formations are currently under investigation to evaluate their
potential use as host formations for installation of deep underground disposal facilities for …

For the performance assessment of radioactive waste disposal, it is critical to predict the
mobility of radionuclides in the geological barrier that hosts it. A key challenge consists of …

The mineralogical and chemical properties of clays have been the subject of longstanding
study in the research community—in fact, entire journals are devoted to the topic. In the field …

The sorption of Cs+ onto raw Kutch clay (India) over a wide range of concentrations and pH
levels was studied and compared with its sorption onto the well-studied FEBEX clay (Spain) …

The efficacy of un-calcined sodium exchanged (Na-MMT) and acid modified montmorillonite
(A-MMT) has been investigated for adsorptive removal of Ni2+ from aqueous solution …

Sorption of radionuclides on MX-80 bentonite has been studied extensively because of its
high sorption capacity and low penetrability. Herein, MX-80 bentonite was characterized by …