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Laboratory Investigations on Radiolysis Effects on Rock Salt With Regard to the Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Norbert Jockwer*
Affiliation:
Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München, Institut für Tieflagerung, Theodor-Heuss-St. 4, D-3300 Braunschweig, Federal Republic of Germany
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Abstract

As a result of the heat producing high-level radioactive waste, volatile components which are in the host rock will be liberated and further gases will be generated by thermal cracking and radiolysis.

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Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1984

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