Pitfalls in the use of solubility limits for radioactive waste disposal: the case of nickel in sulfidic groundwaters

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 75-87

  Thoenen, Tres ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; GROUNDWATER; NICKEL; RADIOISOTOPES; SOLUBILITY; SULFIDE MINERALS;

MILLERITE; SOLUBILITY LIMITS; SULFIDIC GROUNDWATERS;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 0033116541     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT99-A2959     Document Type: Article

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