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Migration '09 convenes near site of early nuclear technology

July 31st, 2009

More than 250 chemists, physicists and geologists are expected to gather for a week of presentations on the migration of radioactive chemicals through earth and aquifers below ground. The 12th international migration conference will be held in a city close to one of the pioneer locations of nuclear technology, the Hanford Site .

Migration '09 will focus on recent developments in the fundamental chemistry of the radioactive elements known as actinides, fission and activation products in natural aquifer systems, their interactions and migration in the geosphere, and the processes involved in modelling their geochemical behavior. In honor of the meeting's proximity to the Hanford Site, the conference will hold a special technical session on subsurface contamination issues specific to Hanford.

The sessions in Migration '09 cover the following areas:

A - Aquatic chemistry of actinides and fission products

B - Migration behaviour of radionuclides

C - Geochemical and transport modelling

Hanford Special Session

International Research Programs

The Scientific Programme will be available online at < http://www.pnl.gov/migration09/>. Online registration is available at < https://www.registrationassistant.com/p/rg.asp?Event=4B7F17158D359927C07FE>

The Conference will begin Sunday, Sept 20, 2009, with a keynote address followed by a reception.

Migration '09: 12th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere

September 20 - 25, 2009

Three Rivers Convention Center

Kennewick, Washington, USA

The prelimary program:

Monday (September 21)

Session 1 A5: Solid-Water Interface Reactions

Session 2 B4: Effects of Biological and Organic materials

Session 3 C: Geochemical and Transport Modelling

Session 4 A4: Redox Reactions And Radiolysis Effects

Session 5 POSTER SESSION I (7-10 pm)

Tuesday (September 22)

Session 6 A3: Complexation With Inorganic And Organic Ligands

Session 7 A2: Solid Solution And Secondary Phase Formation

Session 8 A6: Colloid Formation

Session 9 A7: Experimental Methods

Session 10 POSTER SESSION II (7-10 pm)

Wednesday (September 23)

Session 11 Hanford special Session

Session 12 A3: Complexation With inorganic and organic ligands

Thursday (September 24)

Session 13 A5: Solid-Water Interface Reactions

Session 14 B1, B2, B5: Migration behaviour of radionuclides

Session 15 B2: Diffusion and other migration processes

Session 16 A5: Solid-Water Interface Reactions

CONFERENCE BANQUET (7 pm)

Friday (September 25)

Session 17 A1: Solubility and dissolution

Session 18 International Research programs

The international Migration conferences are held every other year. Migration '07 was held in Munich and Migration '11 is scheduled to be held in Beijing.

Source: DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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