In order to measure groundwater age and design nuclear waste disposal sites, it is important to understand the sorption behavior of tritium on soils. In this study, batch tests were carried out using four soils from China: silty clays from An County and Jiangyou County in Sichuan Province, both of which could be considered candidate sites for Very Low Level Waste disposal; silty sand from Beijing; and loess from Yuci County in Shanxi Province, a typical Chinese loess region. The experimental results indicated that in these soil media, the distribution coefficient of tritium is slightly influenced by adsorption time, water/solid ratio, initial tritium specific activity, pH, and the content of humic and fulvic acids. The average distribution coefficient from all of these influencing factors was about 0.1-0.2 mL/g for the four types of soil samples. This relatively modest sorption of tritium in soils needs to be considered in fate and transport studies of tritium in the environment. 相似文献
The natural selenium poisoning due to toxic Se levels in food chain had been observed in humans and animals in Lower Cambrian outcrop areas in Southern Shaanxi, China. To find out the distribution pattern of selenium and other hazardous elements in the plant, soil and water of Lower Cambrian in Southern Shaanxi, China, and their possible potential health risk, a total of 30 elements were analyzed and the health risk assessment of 18 elements was calculated. Results showed that the soil, plant and natural water of Lower Cambrian all had relatively high Se levels. In Lower Cambrian, the soil was enriched with Se, As, Ba, Cu, Mo, Ni, Zn, Ga, Cd and Cr (1.68 < Igeo < 4.48, Igeo; geo-accumulation index). In same plants, the contents of Se, Cd and Zn (except Cd in corn and rice, Zn in potato and corn) of Lower Cambrian were higher than that of the other strata. Ba and Ga in natural water were higher than that of the other strata, while K and Cs were opposite. The health risk assessment results showed that the people living in outcrop areas of Lower Cambrian had both high total non-carcinogenic risk of 18 elements (HI = 16.12, acceptable range: < 1) and carcinogenic risk of As (3.98E−04, acceptable range: 10−6–10−4). High contents of Se, As, Mo and Tl of Lower Cambrian may pose a health risk to local people, and food intake was the major pathway. For minimizing potential health risk, the local inhabitants should use the mix-imported food with local growing foods.
Ecosystems and their components provide a lot of benefits for the welfare of human beings. Coupled with increasing socioeconomic
development, most of the rapidly developing and transitional countries and regions have been experiencing dramatic land use
changes. This has resulted in a large amount of forestland, grassland, and wetland being occupied as residential and industrial
land or reclaimed for arable land, which in turn results in a sharp deterioration of ecosystem services around the world.
Shandong Province, an economically powerful province of China, was chosen as a case study in order to capture the impact of
socioeconomic development on ecosystem services. By way of the study, land uses and their changes were categorized between
1980 and 2006, and the ecosystem services capital and changes of 111 counties of Shandong Province in different phases were
evaluated, as well as the total ecosystem services capital, followed by the zoning of ecosystem services function region of
Shandong Province. We found that the counties in mountainous areas and wetlands, where generally the prefectural-level cities
are located with a rapid socioeconomic development, experienced a successive deterioration of ecosystem services especially
during the 2000s. Finally, three conservation strategies for managing and improving ecosystem services were proposed and discussed
with the aim of achieving coordinate and sustainable development of the socioeconomy, environment, and ecosystems not only
in Shandong Province but also in other provinces of China, as well as in other developing and transitional countries and regions. 相似文献