Engineered soils for low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities: Effects of additives on the adsorptive behavior and hydraulic conductivity of natural soils

Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 283-306

  Katz, Lynn E ^a,b,c   Humphrey, Dana N ^a,b,c   Jankauskas, Paul T ^a,b,c   Demascio, Frank A ^a,b,c  

^a The University of Maine   (United States)

^b Division of Water Supply   (United States)

^c Froehling and Robertson Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 0029952723     PISSN: 08825696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hwm.1996.13.283     Document Type: Review

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