Alteration of uraninite from the Nopal I deposit, Peña Blanca District, Chihuahua, Mexico, compared to degradation of spent nuclear fuel in the proposed U.S. high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 713-732

  Pearcy, English C ^a   Prikryl, James D ^a   Murphy, William M ^a   Leslie, Bret W ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; MINERALS; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDATION; PETROGRAPHY; SPENT FUELS; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

ALTERATION PRODUCTS; HIGH LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY; MINERALIZATION; URANINITE; URANOPHANE; URANYL MINERALS;

URANIUM DEPOSITS;

ALTERATION; NATURAL ANALOGUE; OXIDATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; REPOSITORIES; URANINITE; URANIUM; WELDED TUFF;

MEXICO, CHIHUAHUA, PENA BLANCA, NOPAL I DEPOSIT; USA, NEVADA, YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 0028534103     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0883-2927(94)90030-2     Document Type: Article

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