Separations and transmutation criteria to improve utilization of a geologic repository

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-106

  Wigeland, Roald A ^a   Bauer, Theodore H ^a   Fanning, Thomas H ^a   Morris, Edgar E ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geologic repository; Spent fuel processing; Thermal limits

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; COMPOSITION; FISSION PRODUCTS; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; SEPARATION; SPENT FUELS;

SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL; SPENT-FUEL PROCESSING; THERMAL LIMITS;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 33645932937     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT06-3     Document Type: Article

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