Synthetic minerals with the pyrochlore and garnet structures for immobilization of actinide-containing Wastes

Geochemistry International

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Laverov, N P ^a   Yudintsev, S V ^a   Livshits, T S ^a   Stefanovsky, S V ^b   Lukinykh, A N ^c   Ewing, R C ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS   (Russian Federation)

^b Moscow NPO Radon   (Russian Federation)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC REACTORS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; COMPLEX OXIDES; CRYSTALLINE MATRICES; DECAY PRODUCTS; EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS; GARNET STRUCTURE; ION IRRADIATION; LEACHING RATES; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; MATRIX; OPTIMAL COMPOSITION; PYROCHLORES; SPACE GROUPS;

ACTINIDES; CALCIUM; COMPLEXATION; HAFNIUM; LEACHING; SILICATE MINERALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TIN; ZIRCONIUM;

GARNETS;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GARNET; IMMOBILIZATION; ION; IRRADIATION; LEACHING; PYROCHLORE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REPOSITORY;

EID: 75949098080     PISSN: 00167029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0016702910010015     Document Type: Article

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