Safety of nuclear waste repositories

Chimia

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 909-915

  Hummel, Wolfgang ^a   Schneider, Jürg W ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b NAGRA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Radioactive waste; Repository safety; Solubility; Sorption; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344449171     PISSN: 00094293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2533/000942905777675444     Document Type: Review

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