Migration of plutonium in ground water at the Nevada Test Site

AB Kersting, DW Efurd, DL Finnegan, DJ Rokop… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Mobile colloids—suspended particles in the submicrometre size range—are known to occur
naturally in ground water, and have the potential to enhance transport of non-soluble …

Plutonium transport in the environment

AB Kersting - Inorganic chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
The recent estimated global stockpile of separated plutonium (Pu) worldwide is about 500 t,
with equal contributions from nuclear weapons and civilian nuclear energy. Independent of …

Optimization and uncertainty assessment of strongly nonlinear groundwater models with high parameter dimensionality

EH Keating, J Doherty, JA Vrugt… - Water Resources …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Highly parameterized and CPU‐intensive groundwater models are increasingly being used
to understand and predict flow and transport through aquifers. Despite their frequent use …

Origin of rare earth element signatures in groundwaters of circumneutral pH from southern Nevada and eastern California, USA

KH Johannesson, X Zhou, C Guo, KJ Stetzenbach… - Chemical …, 2000 - Elsevier
Concentrations of the rare earth elements (REE) were measured in circumneutral pH
groundwaters from southern Nevada and Death Valley, CA. Groundwaters from the regional …

Isolated spring wetlands in the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts, USA: potential response of vegetation to groundwater withdrawal

DT Patten, L Rouse, JC Stromberg - Environmental Management, 2008 - Springer
Desert springs, often the sole sources of water for wildlife and cattle, support wetland and
wetland/upland transition ecosystems including rare and endemic species. In the basin and …

The Global Biogeochemical Cycle of the Rare Earth Elements

V Hatje, J Schijf, KH Johannesson… - Global …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To improve our understanding and guide future studies and applications, we review the
biogeochemistry of the rare earth elements (REE). The REEs, which form a chemically …

Delineation of ground‐water flow systems in the Southern Great Basin using aqueous rare earth element distributions

KH Johannesson, KJ Stetzenbach, VF Hodge… - …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The rare earth element (REE) signature of ground waters from both felsic volcanic rocks on
the Nevada Test Site and from the regional Paleozoic carbonate aquifer of southern Nevada …

Isotope hydrology of southern Nevada groundwater: stable isotopes and radiocarbon

ML Davisson, DK Smith, J Kenneally… - Water Resources …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
A new δ18O map of southern Nevada groundwater shows a systematic decrease in δ18O
of∼ 5‰ from 36° to 39° N latitude. The variation is consistent with higher‐latitude recharge …

Geochemical and statistical evidence of deep carbonate groundwater within overlying volcanic rock aquifers/aquitards of southern Nevada, USA

KJ Stetzenbach, VF Hodge, C Guo, IM Farnham… - Journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Samples collected from springs and wells in southern Nevada were analyzed for major
solutes and trace elements as part of a larger study to characterize the geochemical …

An inventory of long-lived radionuclides residual from underground nuclear testing at the Nevada test site, 1951–1992

DK Smith, DL Finnegan, SM Bowen - Journal of environmental radioactivity, 2003 - Elsevier
An inventory of long-lived radionuclides produced by 828 underground nuclear tests
conducted at the Nevada test site (NTS) from 1951 to 1992 includes residual tritium, fission …