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Study of sorbents for analysis of radiocesium in seawater samples by one-column method

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The paper presents the results of the cesium sorption from seawater with commercially available sorbents (Anfezh, Niket, Uniket, FSS, FD-M, Axionit RCs, Termoxid 35, Termoxid 3A, NKF-C) under the batch and flow conditions, including the distribution coefficients of 137Cs, the dynamic exchange capacity and the total dynamic exchange capacity of the sorbents for cesium as well as the output curves of cesium sorption at different flow rates of the seawater. The data obtained makes it possible to select the most effective sorbents for concentrating and analyzing radiocesium in seawater. Some of the sorbents are effective for 137Cs sorption from seawater. The maximum distribution coefficients of 137Cs under the batch conditions are more than 6 × 104 mL g−1 for the sorbents Anfezh and FD-M. The maximum values of the total dynamic exchange capacity in the process of the non-radioactive cesium sorption for the Uniket and Niket sorbents are 77.7 and 88.8 mg g−1, respectively.

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RFBR funded the reported study, Project Number 19-33-60007 (the “Perspective” competition), the state assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (the Oceanological processes” Topic No. 0827-2020-0003).

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  1. Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kapitanskaya Str., 2, 299011, Sevastopol, Russian Federation

    Nikolay Alekseevich Bezhin & Illarion Igorevich Dovhyi

  2. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Bld. 4 31 Leninsky Prospect, 119071, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Vitaliy Vital’yevich Milyutin, Viktor Olegovich Kaptakov, Evgeny Anatolievich Kozlitin & Ivan Gundarovich Tananaev

  3. Institute of Chemistry FEBRAS, 159 Pr-t 100-letiya Vladivostoka, 690022, Vladivostok, Russian Federation

    Andrei Mikhailovich Egorin & Eduard Anatol’yevich Tokar’

  4. Far Eastern Federal University, Sukhanov Str., 8, 690091, Vladivostok, Russian Federation

    Andrei Mikhailovich Egorin, Eduard Anatol’yevich Tokar’ & Ivan Gundarovich Tananaev

  5. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin Str., 19, 119991, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Ivan Gundarovich Tananaev

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Bezhin, N.A., Dovhyi, I.I., Milyutin, V.V. et al. Study of sorbents for analysis of radiocesium in seawater samples by one-column method. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 327, 1095–1103 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07588-6

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