Progress towards a deep repository for spent nuclear fuel in Sweden

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 623-630

  BÄckblom, Göran ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH NUCLEAR FUEL AND WASTE MANAGEMENT CO   (Sweden)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Encapsulation Laboratory; Radioactive waste management; Radioactive waste processing; Radioactive waste storage; Repository; Siting; Sweden; Waste; sp hard rock laboratory

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE ENCAPSULATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE;

ASPO HARD ROCK LABORATORY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; SWEDEN;

SPENT FUELS;

EID: 0032156055     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.1998.9733918     Document Type: Article

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