We are pleased to announce the publication of a research article in Scientific Reports (Springer Nature) entitled “Adaptation of Conventional Water Treatment Technologies for Organic Component Removal from Liquid Radioactive Waste: Sorption and Coagulation Mechanisms.”
The article was co-authored by Dmytro Charnyi, Yuriy Zabulonov, Vitalina Lukianova, Yevheniia Anpilova, Nataliia Chernova, Yevhen Matselyuk, and Serhiy Marisyk.
The full text of the article is available at: https://rdcu.be/eZ255
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The results demonstrate that classical sorption–coagulation water treatment methods are highly effective for decontaminating liquid radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, particularly trap waters. These methods are more cost-effective and technologically robust than energy-intensive advanced oxidation approaches. The study confirms the efficiency, economic accessibility and broad applicability of these methods in reducing operational costs and enhancing the reliability of nuclear power plant (NPP) water treatment systems.
This interdisciplinary study was carried out by a research team representing several scientific institutions, united by the shared objective of assessing environmentally and technologically sustainable solutions for the treatment of liquid radioactive waste (LRW).
The authors express their sincere gratitude to the editors and reviewers of Scientific Reports (Springer Nature) for their careful, thorough, and constructive evaluation, which substantially improved the quality of the manuscript. Special appreciation is extended for their patience and understanding given the exceptionally challenging circumstances currently faced by Ukrainian scientists and the Ukrainian scientific community as a whole.
The authors also gratefully acknowledge their colleagues from the following institutions for their professional support, valuable scientific consultations, and constructive discussions that significantly contributed to the preparation and publication of this work:
- State Institution ‘The Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine’ (Kyiv, Ukraine);
- The Institute of Telecommunications and Global Information Space of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine);
- The Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine);
- National University of Food Technologies (Kyiv, Ukraine);
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ (Leipzig, Germany).