Long-term field and laboratory leaching tests of cemented radioactive wastes

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 187, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 296-302

  Ojovan, Michael I ^a   Varlackova, Galina A ^b   Golubeva, Zoya I ^b   Burlaka, Olga N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Scientific and Industrial Association 'Radon'   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cement; Field tests; Laboratory tests; Leaching; Long term performance; Waste immobilisation

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; FIELD AND LABORATORY TEST; FIELD TEST; IN-FIELD; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY TESTS; LEACH RATE; LEACHING TEST; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; OPERATIONAL WASTES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SCALING FACTORS; TEMPERATURE FACTOR; TERM FIELD; WASTE IMMOBILISATION;

CEMENTS; CESIUM; DEIONIZED WATER; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; LEACHING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; POWER PLANT LABORATORIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY;

TESTING;

CEMENT; CESIUM 137; GROUND WATER;

CEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IMMOBILIZATION; LABORATORY METHOD; LEACHING; MOBILIZATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD WORK; LABORATORY TEST; LEACHING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOASSAY; WATER ANALYSIS;

RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS;

EID: 79951956549     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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