Mobilization and mechanisms of retardation in the Oklo natural reactor zone 2 (Gabon) - Inferences from U, REE, Zr, Mo and Se isotopes

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1807-1824

  Bros, Régis ^a,c   Hidaka, Hiroshi ^b   Kamei, Gento ^a   Ohnuki, Toshihiko ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Advanced Science Research Center ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; SOLUBILITY; SORPTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COPRECIPITATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CLAY LINER; CONTAINMENT BARRIER; NATURAL ANALOG; NUCLEAR POWER; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION;

GABON; OKLO;

EID: 0242660817     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(03)00113-6     Document Type: Article

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