Biosorption characteristics of Ceratophyllum demersum biomass for removal of uranium(VI) from an aqueous solution

Understanding the mobility of radiocesium and radiostrontium within geological environment is important from ‘deep geological repository system’—safety assessment point of view. Cs and Sr radionuclide sorption studies have been carried out with a stalagmite sample collected from Lesser—Himalayas. Detailed microstructural studies, backed up by micro-Raman and LIBS analyses, identified three different domains within the sample; constituted of microcrystalline calcite, botryoidal aragonite and palisadic calcite respectively. Experimental studies showed that both the radionuclides exhibit moderate to low sorption coefficients within all the different domains of stalagmite under acidic environment.