Neptunium and plutonium solubilities in a Yucca Mountain groundwater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3893-3900

  Efurd, D Wes ^a   Runde, Wolfgang ^a   Banar, Joe C ^a   Janecky, David R ^a   Kaszuba, John P ^a   Palmer, Phillip D ^a   Roensch, Fred R ^a   Tait, C Drew ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NEPTUNIUM; PH EFFECTS; SOLUBILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; URANIUM; WATER ANALYSIS;

NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY; YUCCA MOUNTAIN GROUNDWATER;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

GROUND WATER; NEPTUNIUM; PLUTONIUM;

GROUNDWATER; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; REPOSITORY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IONIC STRENGTH; NUCLEAR WASTE; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

YUCCA;

EID: 0032534924     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es980591h     Document Type: Article

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