Recent progress in extraction agents based on cobalt bis(dicarbollides) for partitioning of radionuclides from high-level nuclear waste

Boron Science: New Technologies and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 463-490

  Grüner, Bohumír ^a   Rais, Jiří ^b   Seluckỳ, Pavel ^b   Lučaníková, Mária ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b NUCLEAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

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