Minerals and design of new waste forms for conditioning nuclear waste;Les minéraux et la formulation de nouvelles matrices de stockage pour les déchets radioactifs

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 343, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 230-236

  Montel, Jean Marc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Apatite; Hollandite; Mineralogy; Monazite; PDT; Radioactive waste; Zircon; Zirconolite

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; MONAZITE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SEPARATION; ZIRCON; ZIRCONOLITE;

EID: 79953825910     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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