Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Water Decontamination at Radioactively Contaminated Lands

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Remediation Measures for Radioactively Contaminated Areas

  • 515 Accesses

Abstract

The chapter presents prospective of use of modified sorbents based on various supports (nonwoven filtering fabrics, aluminosilicates) for decontamination of natural water with various salt content being contaminated by natural and anthropogenic radionuclides (cesium, strontium, uranium, radium, lead, bismuth and thorium). For these sorbents, radionuclides distribution coefficients vary from n·103 to n · 105 L kg−1. The results of development of Individual Water Filters (IWF) for decontamination of radioactive drinking water are presented. It is experimentally found that resource of these filters exceeds 4000 L, whereas decontamination factors remain more than 10. It is shown that the IWF-5, IWF-7, IWF-8, IWF-10 filters can be regenerated and reused. The questions of sanitary attestation of the sorbents and IWF as well as radiation safety of their using are discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 149.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Akahane K, Yonai S, Fukuda S, Miyahara N, Yasuda H, Iwaoka K, Matsumoto M, Fukumura A, Akashi M (2012) The Fukushima nuclear power plant accident and exposures in the environment. Environmentalist 32:136–143

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Aleksakhin RM, Sychev VG (2013) Radioecological aspects of agricultural remediation following the accident at the Fukushima Daichi NPP. Fertility 4:2–6

    Google Scholar 

  • Aleksakhin RM, Glagolev AV, Drozhko EG, Zinin AI, Zinina GA, Ivanov IA, Mokrov YG, Orlova EI, Samsonov BG, Samsonova LM, Stukalov PM (2007) Water pond-9 – a deposit of liquid radioactive waste and its impact on the geological environment, Moscow, Ozersk, Russia

    Google Scholar 

  • Batorshin GS, Mokrov YG (2013) The experience of liquidation of results of the accident at the Mayak Production Association in 1957. Rad Saf Quest 1:13–20

    Google Scholar 

  • Betenekov ND, Egorov YV (1997) Thin-layer inorganic adsorbents in radiochemical analysis. J Anal Chem 52:1020–1025

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Betenekov ND, Egorov YV, Medvedev VP (1977) Static criteria of sorption on microconstituents from aqueous solution. In: Volkhin VV (ed) Inorganic ion exchangers (synthesis, structure and characteristics). Zvezda, Perm

    Google Scholar 

  • Betenekov ND, Egorov Yu V, Puzako VD, Remez VP, Stepanets OV, Khitrov LM, Cheremukhin Yu G (1979) A method for concentration of cesium radionuclides from seawater. Soviet Patent No 828464

    Google Scholar 

  • Betenekov ND, Vasilevsky VA, Egorov YV, Nedobukh TA (1982) Radiochemical study of hydroxide films. Part I Sedimentation of titanium hydroxide films onto the surface of various supports and physicochemical properties of sediments and films. Radiochemistry 24:419–429

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Betenekov ND, Voronina AV, Kutergin AS, Nedobukh TA, Gileva YE (2001) The development of technologies for synthesis of sorbents and sorption filters for radiochemical analysis as well as for decontamination of drinking and waste water from radionuclides. Trans Saint-Petersburg Mining Inst 149:16–18

    Google Scholar 

  • Betenekov ND, Voronina AV, Kutergin AS (2004) Comparative studies of filters for decontamination of drinking water from radionuclides. Bull Ural State Tech Univ 17:65–70

    Google Scholar 

  • Betenekov ND, Voronina AV, Nogovitsyna EV, Chopko NN (2006) Peculiarities of dynamic tests of highly specific sorbents. Sorpt Chromato Proces 6:1115–1118

    Google Scholar 

  • Brock TD (1987) Membrane filtration: a user’s guide and reference manual. Science Tech Inc, Madison

    Google Scholar 

  • Dyer A, Chimedtsogzol A, Campbell L, Williams C (2006) Uptake of caesium and strontium radioisotopes by natural zeolites from Mongolia. Micropor Mesopor Mat 95:172–175

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hamada N, Ogino H (2012) Food safety regulations: what we learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident. J Environ Radioact 111:83–99

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hygienic regulations 155 (2015) Sanitary-hygienic requirements for radiation safety. Kazakhstan Republic, 27.02.2015

    Google Scholar 

  • Israel YA, Petrov VN (1988) Procedures on assessment and measures of safety for the population after the Chernobyl accident. In: Harley JH, Schmidt GD, Silini G (eds) Radionuclides in the food chain. Springer, Berlin, pp 285–290

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Isupov VP, Lyakhov NZ, Shatskaya SS, Chupakhina LE, Vladimirov AG, Moroz EN, Shvartsev SL, Kolpakova MN, Ariunbileg S, Kuibida LV (2011) Uranium in saline lakes of Northwestern Mongolia. Doklady Earth Sci 437:352–356

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Isupov VP, Shatskaya SS, Borodulina IA (2014) Uranium in mineralized lakes of Western Mongolia and adjacent territory of Russia: resources, sources of accumulation, routes of innovative development. Chem Sust Develop 22:429–436

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Karavaeva EN, Kulikov NV, Molchanova IV, Pozolotina VN, Pushkov (1994) Accumulation and distribution of long-living radionuclides in the forest ecosystems of the Kyshtym-accident zone. Sci Total Environ 157:147–151

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kenigsberg JE (2008) Hygienic standards for Cs-137 and Sr-90 in the foodstuffs: experience of Belarus after the Chernobyl accident. Rad Hygien 1:32–51

    Google Scholar 

  • Konoplev AV (2016) Comparative analysis of radioactive cesium wash-off from contaminated catchment areas after accidents at the Fukushima Dai-ichi and Chernobyl nuclear power plants. Geochem Int 54:522–528

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kryshev II, Aleksakhin RM, Ryabov IN, Mahon'ko KP, Taskaev AI, Chumak VK, Borovoi AA, Gagarinsky AY, Demin VF, Sazykina TG, Zarubin OL, Blinova LD, Nikitin AI, Smirnov VV, Priester BS, Sanzharova NI, Perepelyatnikova LV, Astasheva NP, Grebenshchikova NN (1991) Radioecological consequences of the Chernobyl accident. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow

    Google Scholar 

  • Kulsky LA, Goronovsky IT, Koganovsky AM, Shevchenko MA (1980) Handbook on properties, analytical methods and decontamination of water. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, USSR

    Google Scholar 

  • Kulyaeva IO, Voronina AV (2015) Study of sorption characteristics of natural and modified clinoptilolite and glauconite. In: Proceedings of the 2nd international youth conference: physics, technology, innovation. Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, pp 175–176

    Google Scholar 

  • Kuznetsov YV, Shchebetkovsky VN, Trusov AG (1974) Basis of water decontamination from radioactive pollutants. Atomizdat, Moscow

    Google Scholar 

  • Lagunov AV, Smagin AI (2007) The role of the East Ural Nature Reserve in the system of protected areas of Urals. Rad Saf Quest (Special issue):63–76

    Google Scholar 

  • Lattrell SP (1993) Description of accidents with a significant radionuclides release. In: Warner F, Harrison RM (eds) Radioecology after Chernobyl. Biogeochemical pathways of artificial radionuclides. Wiley, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Lauria DC, Godoy JM (2002) Abnormal high natural radium concentration in surface waters. J Environ Radioactiv 61:159–168

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lukashenko SN (2016) Radioecological justification for the return of the Semipalatinsk test site to economic use: fundamental and applied aspects. PhD thesis, Obninsk, Russia

    Google Scholar 

  • Lukyanov VB, Berdonosov SS, Bogatyrev IO, Zaborenko KB, Iofa BZ (1985) Radioactive tracers in chemistry. High School, Moscow, USSR

    Google Scholar 

  • Malikova EM, Lushnikova MV, Voronina AV (2017) The study of chemical and radionuclide composition of liquid radioactive waste from a special drainage tank at the JSC INM. In: Proceedings of the 4th international youth conference: physics, technology, innovation. Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, pp 230–231

    Google Scholar 

  • MHLW (2011) Foodsafety. http://www/mhlw.go.jp/english/foodsafety/at/110318.pdf.2011/

  • Mingkuan Qin (2009) Current progresses and rrospects on unconventional uranium resources (UUR) of China. Technical Meeting on Uranium from Unconventional Resources. Vienna, IAEA Headquarters

    Google Scholar 

  • Nazarbayev NA, Shkolnik VS, Batyrbekov EG, Berezin SA, Lukashenko SN, Skakov MK (2016) Conducting a complex of scientific, technical and engineering works to bring the former Semipalatinsk test site into a safe state. Part 1. Kazakhstan National Nuclear Center, Kurchatov, Russia

    Google Scholar 

  • NRB-99/2009 (2009) Russian regulations on radiation safety–99/2009. Energoatomizdat, Moscow

    Google Scholar 

  • Onischenko GG (2009) Radiation hygienic consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP and the tasks of their minimization. Rad Hygien 2:5–13

    Google Scholar 

  • Razykov ZA, Bakulina GK, Niyazmatova DT, Belyaev AP, Yunusov MM (2002) Separation of uranium from natural uranium-containing waters with a complex salt composition. Bull Tajikistan Acad Sci 45:60–65

    Google Scholar 

  • RDU-99 (2006) Belarussian republican permissible levels of cesium-137 radionuclides and strontium-90 content in food and drinking water (RDU-99) (in redaction of 2006), Minsk, Belarus

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov VI, Glagolenko Yu V, Drozhko EG, Mokrov Yu G (2002) Modern state and ways of solving the problem of the Techa Tandem Reservoir System. Rad Saf Quest 1:3–14

    Google Scholar 

  • Semenishchev VS, Betenekov ND, Nikiforov AF, Glazyrin SV, Tomashova LA (2017) Radon in groundwater drinking water of Sverdlovsk oblast: determination of activities and methods of disposal. Water Indust Russia 2:108–119

    Google Scholar 

  • Smagin AI (2013) Ecology of water bodies at the zone of anthropogeinc radioactive geochemical anomaly at the South Urals. SUSU Publisher, Chelyabinsk

    Google Scholar 

  • Tarasevich YI (1996) Use of natural sorbents as deactivating agents in liquidation of consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. J Water Chem Techno 18:127–131

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Tsitsishvili GV, Andronikashvili TG, Kirov GN (1985) Natural zeolites, chemistry. USSR, Moscow

    Google Scholar 

  • Vdovina ED, Radyuk RI, Sultanov AS (1976) Use of natural zeolites from Uzbekistan for decontamination of low-level radioactive wastewater. Part I, sorption of radioactive cesium. Radiochemistry 3:422–423

    Google Scholar 

  • Voronina AV (1995) Sorption of cesium and strontium from low-activity fresh waters. Radiochemistry 37:538

    Google Scholar 

  • Voronina AV (1996) Synthesis, study of properties and application fields of thin-layer inorganic sorbents based on nonwoven materials. PhD thesis, UGTU, Ekaterinburg, Russia

    Google Scholar 

  • Voronina AV, Semenishchev VS, Nogovitsyna EV, Betenekov ND (2012) A study of ferrocyanide sorbents on hydrated titanium dioxide support using physicochemical methods. Radiochemistry 54:69–74

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Voronina AV, Chaikina TI, Nikiforov AF, Driker BN, Vurasko AV, Frolova EI (2013a) Sorbents based on technical cellulose for decontamination of radioactively contaminated waters and rehabilitation of natural water bodies. Water Indust Russia 5:45–53

    Google Scholar 

  • Voronina AV, Savchenko MO, Semenishchev VS, Nikiforov AF (2013b) The assessment of effectiveness of use of clinoptilolite and ferrocyanide sorbents based on it for decontamination of aqueous media and radionuclides immobilization. Water Indust Russia 6:88–94

    Google Scholar 

  • Voronina AV, Blinova MO, Kulyaeva IO, Sanin PY, Semenishchev VS, Afonin YD (2015a) Sorption of cesium radionuclides from aqueous solutions onto natural and modified aluminosilicates. Radiochemistry 57:446–452

    Google Scholar 

  • Voronina AV, Blinova MO, Semenishchev VS, Gupta DK (2015b) Returning land contaminated as a result of radiation accidents to farming use. J Environ Radioact 144:103–112

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Voronina AV, Gorbunova TV, Semenishchev VS (2017) The effect of the synthesis method on the parameters of pore structure and selectivity of ferrocyanide sorbents based on natural minerals. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 312:241–254

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Yoshimura K, Onda Y, Sakaguchib A, Yamamoto M, Matsuura Y (2015) An extensive study of the concentrations of particulate/dissolved radiocaesium derived from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident in various river systems and their relationship with catchment inventory. J Environ Radioact 139:370–378

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Zhanbekov HN, Mukataeva ZS (2010) Radiochemical condition monitoring data for Syrdaria water basin. Water Chem Ecol 5:2–9

    Google Scholar 

  • Zhanbekov HN, Mukataeva ZS, Lakhbaeva ZA (2012) Radioactive pollution of river Syrdarya by anthropogenic factors. Water Chem Ecol 9:14–17

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Radiochemistry and Applied Ecology Department, Physical Technology Institute, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia

    Anna V. Voronina, Nickolay D. Betenekov & Vladimir S. Semenishchev

Authors
  1. Anna V. Voronina
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Nickolay D. Betenekov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Vladimir S. Semenishchev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Radioökologie und Strahlenschutz (IRS), Hannover, Germany

    Dharmendra K. Gupta

  2. Radiochemistry and Applied Ecology Department, Ural Federal University, Physical Technology Institute, Ekaterinburg, Russia

    Anna Voronina

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Voronina, A.V., Betenekov, N.D., Semenishchev, V.S. (2019). Water Decontamination at Radioactively Contaminated Lands. In: Gupta, D., Voronina, A. (eds) Remediation Measures for Radioactively Contaminated Areas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73398-2_10

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation