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Triay, I.R.; Robinson, B.A.; Mitchell, A.J.; Overly, C.M.; Lopez, R.M.
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)1993
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)1993
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[en] Neptunium has a high solubility in groundwaters from Yucca Mountain [1]. Uranium in nuclear reactors produces 237Np which has a half-life of 2.1 4 x 106 years. Consequently, the transport of 237Np through tuffs is of major importance in assessing the performance of a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The objective of this work is to determine the amount of Np retardation that is provided by the minerals in Yucca Mountain tuffs as a function of groundwater chemistry
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1993; 9 p; Materials Research Society meeting; Austin, TX (United States); 30 Nov 1992; CONF-9211191--1; CONTRACT W-7405-ENG-36; OSTI as DE93007338; NTIS; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep
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ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT, GEOLOGY, GROUND WATER, HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES, HYDROLOGY, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, NANOSEC LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, NEPTUNIUM 237, PH VALUE, QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS, SCINTILLATION COUNTING, SORPTION, SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTO, TUFF, UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL, YUCCA MOUNTAIN
ACTINIDE NUCLEI, ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CHEMICAL ANALYSIS, COUNTING TECHNIQUES, HEAVY NUCLEI, HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS, IGNEOUS ROCKS, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, MANAGEMENT, MASS TRANSFER, MATERIALS, MOUNTAINS, NEPTUNIUM ISOTOPES, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, OXYGEN COMPOUNDS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOACTIVE WASTES, RADIOISOTOPES, ROCKS, WASTE DISPOSAL, WASTE MANAGEMENT, WASTES, WATER, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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