Effect of depleted-uranium dioxide particulate fill on spent-nuclear-fuel waste packages

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 337-353

  Forsberg, Charles W ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); DEGRADATION; FLOW CONTROL; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RADIOISOTOPES; REDUCTION; SPENT FUELS; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

ISOTOPIC DILUTION;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

EID: 0034258876     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT00-A3121     Document Type: Article

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