Approach to the assessment of high-level radioactive waste containment. I: Waste package degradation

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 289-306

  Cragnolino, Gustavo A ^a   Mohanty, Sitakanta ^a   Dunn, Darrell S ^a   Sridhar, Narasi ^a   Ahn, Tae M ^b  

^a SW Res Inst   (United States)

^b U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOISOTOPES;

ENGINEERED BARRIER SYSTEM PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT CODE (EBSPAC); RADIOACTIVE WASTE CONTAINMENT; WASTE PACKAGES (WP);

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

EID: 0034301485     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(00)00273-9     Document Type: Article

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