Colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured porous rock

Waste Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 313-325

  Baek, I ^a   Pitt Jr , W W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER; WATER TRANSPORT;

COLLOIDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER; IMPURITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS; SORPTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT; FULL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE; MASS PARTITION; POROUS ROCK; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORT; RETARDATION EFFECTS;

RADIOISOTOPES;

COLLOID; FRACTURED ROCK; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0030300746     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-053X(96)00074-8     Document Type: Article

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