Transmutation: Issues, innovative options and perspectives

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4 SPEC., 2002, Pages 375-402

  Salvatores, Massimo ^a  

^a IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; NUCLEAR FUELS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; THORIUM;

TRANSMUTATION;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

EID: 0036378524     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-1970(02)00031-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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