Plutonium sorption to nanocast mesoporous carbon

Radiochimica Acta

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 489-504

  Parsons Moss, Tashi ^a,b   Tüysüz, Harun ^b,c   Wang, Deborah ^a,b   Jones, Stephen ^a,b   Olive, Daniel ^a,b   Nitsche, Heino ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KOHLENFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon; Mesoporous; Plutonium; Sorption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903723414     PISSN: 00338230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ract-2014-2138     Document Type: Article

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