Uranium in pore waters from North Atlantic (GME and Southern Nares Abyssal Plain) sediments

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Santschi, P.H., Bajo, C., Mantovani, M., Orciuolo, D., Cranston, R.E., Bruno, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 1988
• Subjects: Nares; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/331155a0

A central question to be addressed by the international sub-seabed radioactive waste disposal program is the mobility of radionuclides through sediments, which are the most important barrier to the transfer to the ocean and eventually to man. The major component of high-level radioactive waste is ur...