Geologic and hydrogeologic setting of the waste isolation pilot plant

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-58

  Swift, P N ^a   Corbet, T F ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PILOT PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSPORTATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS;

BEDDED SALTS; HYDROGEOLOGIC SETTING;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

EID: 0343454041     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(00)00024-7     Document Type: Article

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