Migration of plutonium in ground water at the Nevada Test Site

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6714, 1999, Pages 56-59

  Kersting, A B ^a   Efurd, D W ^b   Finnegan, D L ^b   Rokop, D J ^b   Smith, D K ^a   Thompson, J L ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDE; CESIUM; COBALT; EUROPIUM; GROUND WATER; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM; TRITIUM; ZEOLITE;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PLUTONIUM; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION;

ARTICLE; CLAY; COLLOID; FILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

UNITED STATES;

TRITIUM;

EID: 0033531118     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16231     Document Type: Article

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