%0 Journal Article
%T Novel Approach for the Remediation of Radioactive Cesium Contaminated Soil with nano-Fe/Ca/CaO Dispersion Mixture in Dry Condition
%A Mallampati S. R.
%A Mitoma Y.
%A Okuda T.
%A Sakita S.
%J E3S Web of Conferences
%D 2013
%I 
%R 10.1051/e3sconf/20130108003
%X Present study, first time we developed a nano-Fe/Ca/CaO dispersion mixture based remediation and volume reduction method of real radioactive cesium contaminated soils. After soil samples treated with 10wt% of nano-Fe/Ca/CaO dispersion mixtures, emitting radiation intensity was reduced from 4.00 ¦ÌSv/h to 0.95 ¦ÌSv/h in non-magnetic fraction soils. While, after treatment, about 30wt% magnetic and 70wt% nonmagnetic fraction soils were separated, and it¡¯s condensed radioactive cesium concentration was about 80% and 20%, respectively. By this way, cesium contaminated soil volume can be reduced. These preliminary results appear to be very promising and the simple mixing with the addition of nano-Fe/Ca/CaO may be considered potentially applicable for the remediation and separation of radioactive Cs contaminated soil in dry conditions.
%K Contaminated soil
%K Nano-Fe/Ca/CaO
%K Radioactive cesium
%K Remediation
%K Volume reduction
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20130108003