H31I:
Uranium Mobility in the Environment I Posters


Session ID#: 7618

Session Description:
New and better knowledge of the physical, geochemical, and biological factors controlling uranium mobility is vital at many sites to protect human health and the environment.  Improving predictions of plume behavior is central to this effort. This session will highlight research that helps to advance basic and applied science required to sustain development of improved predictive models. Topics to be considered include:

 * What are the principle pools of uranium in contaminated or mined subsurface sites?

* What are the rates of uranium release from these pools?

* What are the processes controlling uranium release?

* When must rate-limited mass-transfer be considered, and how is this best accomplished?

* What types of data are required to support hydrogeologic and biogeochemical models?

* What remediation techniques are effective?

 We encourage submissions that discuss multidisciplinary efforts to address conceptual, analytical, and numerical capabilities as well as to develop biogeochemical process models.

Primary Convener:  William L Dam, Department of Energy Grand Junction, Grand Junction, CO, United States
Conveners:  John Bargar, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Mark L Brusseau, University of Arizona, Soil, Water and Environmental Science Department, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States; University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, Tucson, AZ, United States and Paul W. Reimus, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  Mark L Brusseau, University of Arizona, Soil, Water and Environmental Science Department, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and John Bargar, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Raymond H Johnson, RSI EnTech, LLC, Contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management, Grand Junction, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0432 Contaminant and organic biogeochemistry [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1830 Groundwater/surface water interaction [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evaluation of occurrence and distribution of natural radionuclides in groundwater of Korea (77871)
Sang Woong Yun, Kangwon National University, Department of Geology, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South), Jin-Yong Lee, Kangwon National University, Department of Gelogy, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South) and Yu-Chul Park, Kangwon National University, Department of Geophysics, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS OF URANIUM IN WATER, SEDIMENTS, AND PLANTS ALONG A WATERSHED ADJACENT TO THE ABANDONED JACKPILE MINE (80372)
Johanna Blake1, Cherie L De Vore2, Sumant Avasarala3, Abdulmehdi Ali2, Claudia Roldan2, Fenton Bowers2, Mike Spilde2, Kateryna Artyushkova2 and Jose Cerrato2, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico Water Science Center, Albuquerque, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States
Uptake of Uranium and Other Elements of Concern by Plants Growing on Uranium Mill Tailings Disposal Cells (85363)
William Waugh1, Carrie Joseph2 and Edward Glenn2, (1)Navarro Research and Engineering, Grand Junction, CO, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Effect of Intermittent Flow on the Mobility of Metals from Abandoned Uranium Mine Waste Sites on Native American Land (83450)
Sumant Avasarala1, Abdulmehdi Ali1, Kateryna Artyushkova2, Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon3 and Jose Cerrato2, (1)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, Albuquerque, United States
Quantifying uranium transport rates and storage of fluvially eroded mine tailings from a historic mine site in the Grand Canyon Region (82433)
Adam James Benthem1, Katherine E Walton-Day2, Katherine Skalak3 and Glenn Jolly3, (1)National Research Program Reston, Reston, VA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (3)USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States
Field Testing of Downgradient Uranium Mobility at an In-Situ Recovery Uranium Mine (82338)
Paul W. Reimus1, James T Clay2, Michael Rearick3, George Perkins1, Shaun T Brown4, Anirban Basu5 and Kevin Chamberlain6, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Cameco Resources, Casper, WY, United States, (3)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Characterization of U ore from a roll-front U deposit: Implications of dominant U-Ti mineral for ore genesis and post solution-mining U immobilization (84422)
Anirban Basu1, Shaun T Brown2, John Neil Christensen3, Paul W. Reimus4, Jeffrey M Heikoop5, Giday W WoldeGabriel6, Matt Hartmann7 and Donald J DePaolo1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Uranium Resources, Inc, 6950 S. Potomac Street, Suite 300, Centennial, CO, United States
A Metal Stable Isotope Approach to Understanding Uranium Mobility Across Roll Front Redox Boundaries (84642)
Shaun T Brown1, Anirban Basu2, John Neil Christensen3, Donald J DePaolo2, Jeffrey M Heikoop4, Paul W. Reimus5, Katharine Maher6 and Karrie L Weaver7, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (7)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Attenuation and Transport Mechanisms of Depleted Uranium in Groundwater at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300 (71422)
Kimberly Reanna Danny, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Michael Jeffrey Taffet, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Environmental Restoration Department, Livermore, United States, Mark L. L Brusseau, University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States and Jon Chorover, University of Arizona, Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
Combining U speciation and U isotope fractionation to evaluate the importance of naturally reduced sediments in controlling the mobility of uranium in the upper Colorado River Basin (82210)
Vincent Noel1, Pierre Lefebvre2, Kristin Boye3, John Bargar4, Katharine Maher5, Juan Lezama-Pacheco6, Emily Cardarelli5, Sharon Bone7, William L Dam8 and Raymond H Johnson9, (1)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France, (3)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States, (5)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (6)Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, (7)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (8)Department of Energy Grand Junction, Grand Junction, CO, United States, (9)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
A Record of Uranium-Series Transport in Fractured, Unsaturated Tuff at Nopal I, Sierra Peña Blanca, Chihuahua, Mexico (64612)
Joanna Denton1, Steven J Goldstein1, Patricia Paviet2, Andrew J Nunn1, Ron S Amato1 and Kimberly A Hinrichs1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Germantown, MD, United States
Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions as a Critical Component of Uranium Plume Persistence (85149)
Kenneth Hurst Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, John Neil Christensen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States and Chad Hobson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Science Divission, Berkeley, CA, United States
Characterization of the Aqueous Uranyl-Silicate Complex Using X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Modeling (83019)
Minh Vu1, Mike Massey2 and Patrick Huang1, (1)California State University East Bay, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Hayward, CA, United States, (2)California State University East Bay, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Hayward, CA, United States
Uranium(VI) Diffusion in Sodium-Montmorillonite at Alkaline pH Conditions (84593)
Ruth M Tinnacher1, James A Davis2, Christophe Tournassat3 and Jens T Birkholzer2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)BRGM, French Geological Survey, Orléans, France
CLAY MINERALOGY OF AN ALLUVIAL AQUIFER IN A MOUNTAINOUS, SEMIARID TERRAIN, AN EXAMPLE FROM RIFLE, COLORADO (79226)
W Crawford Elliott1, David Lim2, Laura K Zaunbrecher1, Rebecca A Pickering1, Kenneth Hurst Williams3, Alexis Navarre-Sitchler4, Philip E Long5, Vincent Noel6, John Bargar7 and Nikolla P Qafoku8, (1)Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology & Geological Engineering, Hydrologic Science & Engineering, Golden, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Chelan, WA, United States, (6)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (7)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Geosciences, Richland, WA, United States
A Multifaceted Sampling Approach to Better Understanding Biogeochemical and Hydrogeological Controls on Uranium Mobility at a Former Uranium Mill Tailings Site in Riverton, Wyoming (73069)
William L Dam1, Raymond H Johnson2, Sam Campbell2, Sharon E. Bone3, Vincent Noel4 and John Bargar5, (1)Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management, Grand Junction, CO, United States, (2)Navarro Research and Engineering, Contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management, Grand Junction, CO, United States, (3)SLAC, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (5)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States
Post Audit of a Field Scale Reactive Transport Model of Uranium at a Former Mill Site (76909)
Gary P Curtis, USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Inhibition Mechanism of Uranyl Reduction Induced by Calcium-Carbonato Complexes (75779)
Morris E Jones, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, John Bargar, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States and Scott E Fendorf, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Investigating Uranium Mobility Using Stable Isotope Partitioning of 238U/235U and a Reactive Transport Model (73182)
Matthew Bizjack, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Thomas M Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Geology, Urbana, United States, Jennifer L Druhan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, United States and Alyssa E Shiel, Oregon State University, Geology, Corvallis, OR, United States
Subsurface Nitrogen-Cycling Microbial Communities at Uranium Contaminated Sites in the Colorado River Basin (85674)
Emily Cardarelli1, John Bargar2, Kenneth Hurst Williams3, William L Dam4 and Christopher Francis1, (1)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Department of Energy Grand Junction, Grand Junction, CO, United States
Sensitivity of geological, geochemical and hydrologic parameters in complex reactive transport systems for in-situ uranium bioremediation (85381)
Guang Yang, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Katharine Maher, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States and Jef Caers, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Efficacy of Biostimulation for Uranium Sequestration: Coupled Effects Sediment/Groundwater Geochemistry and Microbiology (72678)
Jie Xu1, Harish Veeramani2, Nikolla P Qafoku3, Gargi Singh1, Amy Pruden1, Ravi K Kukkadapu4 and Michael F Hochella Jr5, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (3)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Impact of Electron Donor selection on In-situ Biosequestration of Uranium (86513)
SayyedHassan Tabatabaei, University of Arizona, Soil, Water, and Environmental Science Department, Tucson, AZ, United States; Shahrekord University, Department of Water Engineering, Shahrekord, Iran, Hua Zhong, Wuhan University, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan, China, Erin J Abel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jim Field, The University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States and Mark L. L Brusseau, University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling in the Simulation of Field-Scale Uranium Bioremediation (80683)
Steven Yabusaki1, Michael J Wilkins2, Yilin Fang3, Kenneth Hurst Williams4, Scott Waichler1 and Philip E Long5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Chelan, WA, United States

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