The mechanism of cesium immobilization in densified silica-fume blended cement pastes

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 667-674

  Bar Nes, G ^a,b   Katz, A ^b   Peled, Y ^a   Zeiri, Y ^a,c  

^a NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agglomerate; Cement paste; Cesium; Densified silica fume; Immobilization

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BLENDING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; POZZOLAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA FUME;

AGGLOMERATES; CEMENT PASTE; CESIUM IMMOBILIZATION; DENSIFIED SILICA FUME;

CESIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 40749129245     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2007.09.017     Document Type: Article

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