Utilizing the KEP-A glass frit to vitrify low-level radioactive waste from Korean NPPs

Waste Management

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 575-580

  Choi, Kwansik ^a   Sheng, Jiawei ^a,b   Lee, Myung Chan ^a   Song, Myung Jae ^a  

^a Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co   (South Korea)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glass frits; Low level radioactive waste (LLW); Nuclear power plants; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; VISCOSITY;

GLASS FRITS; LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE VITRIFICATION;

BORIC ACID; GLASS; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; RESIN;

ARTICLE; COTTON; KOREA; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; VISCOSITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 0033922824     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-053X(00)00027-1     Document Type: Article

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