Sorption and Modeling of Actinides on Ca-Feldspars

This poster gives a small overview of the investigations on sorption on plagioclases (Ca-feldspars). The topic is of main importance to find an suitable final radioactive waste repository.
The surface of the minerals was characterzied with zeta potenzial. Batch sorption experiments were conducted to gain information about the sorption of the lanthanide Eu3+ and actinide Am3+. Time resolved laser induced spectroscopy was applied to understand the sorption on a molecular level. All these data were then used for a surface complexation model, that will be used for simulation of the sorption of actinides at different geochemical conditions.