Consideration of nuclear criticality when directly disposing highly enriched spent nuclear fuel in unsaturated tuff - I: Nuclear criticality constraints

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 201-221

  Rechard, Rob P ^a   Sanchez, Lawrence C ^a   Trellue, Holly R ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical limits; Criticality; Radioactive waste disposal

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; URANIUM;

FISSILE MATERIAL; GOETHITE; NON-FISSILE MATERIAL; NUCLEAR CRITICALITY CONSTRAINT; SODDYITE;

SPENT FUELS;

EID: 0242285574     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT03-4     Document Type: Article

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