The fate of Tc in a UK intermediate-level nuclear waste repository

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 109, Issue , 2008, Pages 579-588

  Evans, N ^a   Hallam, R ^a   Aldridge, S ^a   Warwick, P ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EDTA; Gluconic acid; High pH; ISA; Nuclear waste repository; Redox; Technetium

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EDTA; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HYDROLYSIS; LIGAND; OXIDATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REDOX CONDITIONS; REPOSITORY; TECHNETIUM; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 58849160912     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/WM080591     Document Type: Article

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