Effect of clay content and wetting-and-drying on radiocaesium behaviour in a peat and a peaty podzol

The Science of the Total Environment
K RosénM V Cheshire

Abstract

The interaction of radiocaesium with peat under two moisture regimes was studied in laboratory experiments and by growing ryegrass in pot experiments to simulate changing field moisture conditions. A peat untreated and treated with 5% by weight of clay containing 46% illitic minerals, and a peaty podzol naturally containing 4.5% mineral matter on a dry weight basis were contaminated with (134)Cs and incubated. The soils were exposed to 8 wetting-and-drying cycles or kept constantly wet during 40 days. Extraction of the peat with 1 M CH(3)COONH(4) (pH 7) repeated after each wetting-and-drying cycle indicated increasing (134)Cs fixation with time of incubation. The peat treated with clay showed a much higher (134)Cs fixation than that without clay. The pot experiment with the incubated soils showed a (134)Cs transfer to ryegrass of the same order for the peaty podzol as for the peat treated with clay. For the peat untreated with clay the (134)Cs transfer to ryegrass was much greater. Wetting-and-drying the peat, with or without clay, increased the overall yield of grass and the concentration and uptake of (134)Cs over 5 consecutive harvests. K-fertilisation increased the yield of plant material (except for the peat with added cla...Continue Reading

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