Research Output per year
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Research Associate in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering working on developing novel treatments for carbon-based radioactive wastes.
Our aim is to determine the feasibility of smouldering orphan radioactive waste to produce a waste ash and to capture the radioactive gases emitted, including radiocarbon (14C). We are investigating methods for gas capture via microbial induced precipitation of carbonate and phosphate minerals. The minerals produced will be considered as an alternative material for radioactive waste encapsulation.
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Irish Sea
Agriculture & Biology
Sediments
Engineering & Materials Science
Ecosystems
Engineering & Materials Science
Scotland
Agriculture & Biology
ecosystem
Earth & Environmental Sciences
biota
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Phocoena phocoena
Agriculture & Biology
sediment
Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Research Output 2015 2018
- 6 Article
Modelling marine trophic transfer of radiocarbon (14C) from a nuclear facility
Tierney, K. M., Heymans, J. J., Muir, G. K. P., Cook, G. T., Buszowski, J., Steenbeek, J., Walters, W. J., Christensen, V., MacKinnon, G., Howe, J. A. & Xu, S., 30 Apr 2018, In : Environmental Modelling and Software. 102, p. 138-154 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Impurities
modeling
pollutant
Nuclear fuels
Ecosystems
Ecosystem uptake and transfer of Sellafield-derived radiocarbon (14C). Part 1. The Irish Sea
Muir, G. K. P., Tierney, K. M., Cook, G. T., MacKinnon, G., Howe, J. A., Heymans, J. J., Hughes, D. J. & Xu, S., 30 Jan 2017, In : Marine Pollution Bulletin. 114, 2, p. 792-804 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Irish Sea
Ecosystems
biota
Sediments
ecosystems