Abstract:
Americium has lots of species in aquatic solution. It is difficult to measure the distribution of americium species while they can be calculated by many geochemical software. EQ3NR is a part of EQ3/6 which is a powerful geochemical modeling code. It is used to calculate the species distribution of some nuclides and saturated indexes of minerals usually. The distribution of Am species in Beishan groundwater system was simulated by EQ3NR. The results of calculation show that the main species of Am are AmCO
+3, AmSO
+4, Am(CO
3)
-2, Am
3+, AmOH
2+, AmF
2+and Am(SO
4)
-2 etc.. The influence of pH value on species distribution of Am is not significant when the pH value of groundwater is between 4-6, while the influence of pH is strong when pH value is higher than 6. The aerobic and anoxic conditions have little influence on the americium speciation distribution. Because the edition of the database is older, there will be a little difference between the simulated results and real circumstance. The database should be mended.