Nuclear proliferation: Time to bury plutonium

Nature

Volumn 485, Issue 7397, 2012, Pages 167-168

  Hippel, Frank Von ^a   Ewing, Rodney ^b   Garwin, Richard ^c   Macfarlane, Allison ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; PLUTONIUM; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; GAMMA RADIATION; NOTE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR REACTOR; NUCLEAR SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84860753014     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/485167a     Document Type: Article

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