Recovery of fissile materials from wastes and conversion of the residual wastes to glass

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 341-349

  Forsberg, Charles W ^a,b,c   Beahm, Edward C ^a,d,e,f  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f US Navy Nuclear Power Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Plutonium residues; Reprocessing; Waste glass

Indexed keywords

BORON COMPOUNDS; BOROSILICATE GLASS; DISSOLUTION; ION EXCHANGE; NITRIC ACID; OXIDATION; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE VITRIFICATION; RECYCLING; SEPARATION; SPENT FUELS; URANIUM;

MISCELLANEOUS FISSILE MATERIALS (MFM); RADIOACTIVE WASTE GLASS;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

EID: 0032164693     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT98-A2904     Document Type: Article

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