Sonochemical Dissolution of Metallic Plutonium in a Mixture of Nitric and Formic Acid

Radiochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 219-225

  Moisy, Ph ^a   Nikitenko, S I ^a,b   Venault, L ^a   Madic, C ^a  

^a Research Department of Mining and Fuel Recycling ProCesses   (France)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dissolution; Kinetics; Plutonium; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001466164     PISSN: 00338230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/ract.1996.75.4.219     Document Type: Article

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