Based on the molecular structure of kaolinite clay, the molecular modeling and dynamics simulation of the cesium chloride aqueous solution system containing kaolinite clay layer and without kaolinite clay layer were carried out by using Materials Studio software. The statistical properties, structural properties and dynamic properties of the whole system were calculated and analyzed using the Forcite tools, and the diffusion coefficients of Cl-and Cs+ in the two systems were calculated using the MSD method and the VACF method, respectively. The analysis results show that the adsorption of kaolinite to solution ions is exothermic and spontaneous, and basically does not affect the position of the hydration shell of Cl- and Cs+, but increases the coordination number of the first hydration shell. The diffusion rate of Cl- in both systems is much higher than that of Cs+, but in the presence of kaolinite, the diffusion rates of Cl- and Cs+ decreased by 56.12% and 43.92%, respectively. Cs+ interacts with the siloxane surface of kaolinite and is adsorbed on the inner and outer surfaces of the clay layer to form a complex on the inner and outer surfaces, and because of the electrostatic repulsion between Cl- and the hydroxyl groups on the surface of aluminum alcohol, kaolinite has a weak adsorption capacity for Cl-. A series of simulation results show that kaolinite clay can be used as the immobilization material of radionuclide 137Cs, which provides a certain basis for further confirming that kaolinite can be used as a good containment material for radionuclide treatment.
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