Cvetković, Benjamin Z; Salazar Quintero, Gary Abdiel; Kunz, Dominik; Tits, Jan; Szidat, Sönke; Wieland, Erich (2018). Quantification of dissolved organic 14C-containing compounds by accelerator mass spectrometry in a corrosion experiment with irradiated steel. Radiocarbon, 60(6), pp. 1711-1727. Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona 10.1017/RDC.2018.90
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Low- and intermediate-level (L/ILW) radioactive waste produced in Switzerland consists of large amounts of 14C-containing irradiated steel. 14C will be released during the anoxic corrosion of the steel in the cementitious near field of an L/ILW repository. In this study, a corrosion experiment with irradiated steel was carried out to determine the speciation of 14C released during the corrosion process in conditions similar to those anticipated in the near field of a cement-based repository. The development of the experimental setup, including installation of the reactor and development of suitable analytical methods based on compound-specific 14C analysis with accelerator mass spectrometry (CSRA AMS) is reported. Time-dependent increase in the total content of 14C-bearing organic compounds in solution (TO14C) was determined by AMS and the main organic corrosion products that are 14C-bearing formate, acetate and lactate were identified by CSRA AMS after a pre-concentration step. The concentration of the 14C-bearing organic compounds was found to be very low (fmol to pmol 14C/L). Stable carbon compounds were identified and quantified while the source of stable carbon in the system has not yet been identified and the temporal evolution of the concentration of these carbon species is presently not understood.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) 08 Faculty of Science > Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DCBP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Salazar Quintero, Gary Abdiel, Szidat, Sönke |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 540 Chemistry |
ISSN: |
0033-8222 |
Publisher: |
Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Sönke Szidat |
Date Deposited: |
01 May 2019 10:25 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1017/RDC.2018.90 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.125499 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/125499 |
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