Heino Nitsche

University of California, Berkeley

Projects

Biogeochemical Processes Responsible for the Enhanced Transport of Plutonium under Transient Unsaturated Condtions.

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Ravi Kukkadapu

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Plutonium is an element of concern because of its radiotoxicity. At Savannah River Site (SRS), as a result of processing Pu for nuclear weapons, some ~60 Ci of 238Pu and 239Pu was released into…