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Bioremediation and Biodegradation

Oxidative Remobilization of Biogenic Uranium(IV) Precipitates

Effects of Iron(II) and pH

^a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354
^b Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97330

^* Corresponding author (lirong.zhong{at}pnl.gov)

Received for publication February 15, 2005. The oxidative remobilization of uranium from biogenic U(IV) precipitates was investigated in bioreduced sediment suspensions in contact with atmospheric O₂ with an emphasis on the influence of Fe(II) and pH on the rate and extent of U release from the solid to the aqueous phase. The sediment was collected from the U.S. Department of Energy Field Research Center (FRC) site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Biogenic U(IV) precipitates and bioreduced sediment were generated through anaerobic incubation with a dissimilatory metal reducing bacterium Shewanella putrefaciens strain CN32. The oxidative remobilization of freshly prepared and 1-yr aged biogenic U(IV) was conducted in 0.1 mol/L NaNO₃ electrolyte with variable pH and Fe(II) concentrations. Biogenic U(IV)O_2(s) was released into the aqueous phase with the highest rate and extent at pH 4 and 9, while the U remobilization was the lowest at circumneutral pH. Increasing Fe(II) significantly decreased U remobilization to the aqueous phase. From 70 to 100% of the U in the sediments used in all the tests was extractable at the experiment termination (41 d) with a bicarbonate solution (0.2 mol/L), indicating that biogenic U(IV) was oxidized regardless of Fe(II) concentration and pH. Sorption experiments and modeling calculations indicated that the inhibitive effect of Fe(II) on U(IV) oxidative remobilization was consistent with the Fe(III) oxide precipitation and U(VI) sorption to this secondary phase.

Abbreviations: DCB, dithionite–citrate–bicarbonate • FRC, Field Research Center • HFO, hydro ferric oxide • UO_2(s), uraninite

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