Chernobylite
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Chernobylite is a solid solution technogenic compound consisting of a crystalline zirconium silicate and an amount of uranium as high as 10%.
It was discovered in corium (a lava-like glassy material) that was formed during the nuclear meltdown of Unit 4 in the Chernobyl disaster.[1][2][3] Chernobylite is highly radioactive due to its substantial uranium content and contamination by fission products, however it is not any more radioactive than the corium itself.
Some yellow, powdery, secondary uranyl phases made up of studtite, becquerelite and phurcalite that formed on the surface of the corium due to interaction with water are often mistaken for Chernobylite. Those yellow minerals are not chernobylite. Chernobylite cannot be seen with the naked eye as it appears as microscopic crystals that can only be seen using SEM.[4]
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.United States. Joint Publications Research Service; United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1991). USSR report: Chemistry. Joint Publications Research Service. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Richard Francis Mould (1 May 2000). Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chornobyl Catastrophe. CRC Press. pp. 128–. ISBN 978-0-7503-0670-6. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ Valeriy Soyfer "Chernobylite: Technogenic Mineral", Khimiya i Zhizn', No 11, Nov. 1990, p. 12, in Science & Technology USSR: Chemistry. JPRS Report. 27 March 1991. p. 29.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gurzhiy, Vladislav V.; Burakov, Boris E.; Zubekhina, Bella Yu; Kasatkin, Anatoly V. (2023-06-22). "Evolution of Chernobyl Corium in Water: Formation of Secondary Uranyl Phases". Materials. 16 (13): 4533. doi:10.3390/ma16134533. ISSN 1996-1944. PMC 10342636. PMID 37444847.
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