Accelerator-driven transmutation projects. The importance of nuclear physics research for waste transmutation

Nuclear Physics A

Volumn 654, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages C436-C457

  Gudowski, Waclaw ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0033606760     PISSN: 03759474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9474(99)00269-9     Document Type: Article

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