Radioactively contaminated electric arc furnace dust as an addition to the immobilization mortar in low-and medium-activity repositories

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2946-2952

  Castellote, Marta ^a   Menéndez, Esperanza ^a   Andrade, Carmen ^a   Zuloaga, Pablo ^b   Navarro, Mariano ^b   Ordóñez, Manuel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN EDUARDO TORROJA   (Spain)

^b Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATION; DUST; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC FURNACES; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; HYDRATION; MORTAR; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; STEELMAKING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

IMMOBILIZATION MORTAR; INTRINSIC HAZARDOUS WASTES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CEMENT; CESIUM; CHLORIDE;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE; STEELMAKING;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DUST; ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE DUST; FURNACE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HYDRATION; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LEACHING; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SAND; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 2442666438     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es034518p     Document Type: Article

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