Early age behaviour of concrete supercontainers for radioactive waste disposal

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-35

  Craeye, Bart ^a   De Schutter, Geert ^a   Van Humbeeck, Hughes ^b   Van Cotthem, Alain ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Belgian Agency for Management of Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials   (Belgium)

^c TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON STEEL; CEMENT MANUFACTURE; CEMENTS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETES; CRACKS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PORTLAND CEMENT; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; SPENT FUELS; STEEL; THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BELGIUM; EARLY AGES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; ORDINARY PORTLAND CEMENTS; OVERPACK; REPOSITORY DESIGNS; RESEARCH CENTRES; SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETES; SHRINKAGE AND CREEPS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPENT FUEL ASSEMBLIES; THERMAL BEHAVIOURS; TRANSPORT MECHANISMS; VIBRATED CONCRETES; WASTE CANISTERS; WASTE PACKAGES;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 57649102741     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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