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The aim of this work was to simulate the transport of uranium in the unsaturated zone of an experimental parcel located in the community of San Cayetano, State of Mexico. The implanted cultivation is corn, fertilized with granulate triple superphosphate. During the transport of fertilizers through the unsaturated media, the physicochemical processes can produce the exchange of the mass of the fertilizers among the solid and aqueous phases, for example the sorption for the geologic materials, the precipitation or dissolution and the complexation. The evolution of the humidity was evaluated using tensiometers and the concentration and uranyl, [U(VI)] mobility was determined using a cup of porous ceramic. It is important to indicate that phosphate and nitrogen fertilizers are the most employed in that area for corn growing, for this the human health risk associated with the presence of widespread uranium contamination of soils, sediments, and groundwater.
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Work partially supported by ABACUS, CONACyT grant EDOMEX-2011-C01-165873.
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Reyes-Gutiérrez, L.R., Romero-Guzmán, E.T., Klapp-Escribano, J.L. (2014). Uranyl Transport in the Unsaturated Zone of the Toluca Valley, State of Mexico. In: Klapp, J., Medina, A. (eds) Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00116-6_40
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