Chapter 10 Microbial processes in the disposal of high level radioactive waste 500 m underground in Fennoscandian Shield rocks

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 2, Issue C, 2002, Pages 279-311

  Pedersen, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 77956978583     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(02)80039-0     Document Type: Article

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