Uranium and thorium: The extreme diversity of the resources of the world’s energy minerals

Non-Renewable Resource Issues: Geoscientific and Societal Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 91-129

  Cuney, Michel ^a  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Deposits; Resources; Sustainable use; Thorium; Uranium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995802635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8679-2_6     Document Type: Chapter

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