Iodine /Radiation chemistry /GeochemistrySummary This paper provides a literature review of the studies which elucidate the influence of radiolysis on the migration of iodine in the geosphere in relation to safety assessments of underground disposal of 119 1 and lead as well to a better understanding of the geochemistry of this element. Radiation has been shown in a number of publications to have a considerable effect on the chemical behaviour of iodine in aqueous solutions, water-rock and similar heterogeneous systems. Some geochemical features of iodine in uranium deposits and in very old formation waters manifesting its radiolytic behaviour in nature are also discussed.
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