Sensitivity analysis for uranium soils decontamination using a monte carlo simulation

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1817-1825

  Woinaroschy, Alexandru ^a   Radu, Aura Daniela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b R and D National Institute for Metals and Radioactive Resources   (Romania)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Monte Carlo simulation; Sensitivity analysis; Soils decontamination; Uranium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926287392     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: 18433707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2014.202     Document Type: Article

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