Abstract

Uranium oxide microparticles ingestion is one of the potential sources of internal radiation doses to the humans at accidental or undesirable releases of radioactive materials. It is important to predict the obtained dose and possible biological effect of these microparticles by studying uranium oxides transformations in case of their ingestion or inhalation. Using a combination of methods, a complex examination of structural changes of uranium oxides in the range from UO2 to U4O9, U3O8 and UO3 as well as before and after exposure of uranium oxides in simulated biological fluids: gastro-intestinal and lung—was carried out. Oxides were thoroughly characterized by Raman and XAFS spectroscopy. It was determined that the duration of expose has more influence on all oxides transformations. The greatest changes occurred in U4O9, that transformed into U4O9-y. UO2.05 and U3O8 structures became more ordered and UO3 did not undergo significant transformation.

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Title
Uranium oxides structural transformation in human body liquids
Author
Poliakova, Tatiana 1 ; Krot, Anna 1 ; Trigub, Alexander 2 ; Nevolin, Iurii 3 ; Averin, Alexey 3 ; Yapaskurt, Vasiliy 4 ; Vlasova, Irina 1 ; Matveev, Petr 1 ; Kalmykov, Stepan 5 

 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chemistry Department, Moscow, Russian Federation (GRID:grid.14476.30) (ISNI:0000 0001 2342 9668) 
 National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia (GRID:grid.18919.38) (ISNI:0000000406204151) 
 Russian Academy of Sciences, Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation (GRID:grid.4886.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 2192 9124) 
 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Geology Department, Moscow, Russian Federation (GRID:grid.14476.30) (ISNI:0000 0001 2342 9668) 
 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chemistry Department, Moscow, Russian Federation (GRID:grid.14476.30) (ISNI:0000 0001 2342 9668); Russian Academy of Sciences, Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation (GRID:grid.4886.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 2192 9124) 
Pages
4088
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2785837686
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.