Performance assessment models for low level radioactive waste disposal facilities: a review

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-38

  Yim, Man Sung ^a   Simonson, Scott A ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOLOGY; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

DISPOSAL SITES; ITERATIVE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

EID: 0033885058     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-1970(99)00015-3     Document Type: Article

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