Long-term stability of spent nuclear fuel waste packages in gorleben salt repository environments

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 174-188

  Grambow, Bernd ^a,b   Loida, Andreas ^a,c   Smailos, Emmanuel ^a,d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nuclear waste disposal; Plutonium; Spent fuel

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; PACKAGING MATERIALS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; SOLUBILITY; SPENT FUELS;

HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; MULTIBARRIER SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR FUEL WASTE PACKAGES; OXIDANTS; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; SALT DOMES;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 0032002329     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT98-A2830     Document Type: Article

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