A review on the design requirement of temperature in high-level nuclear waste disposal system: based on bentonite buffer
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Kim, Jin-Seop
(Radioactive Waste Disposal Research Division, KAERI)
Cho, Won-Jin (Radioactive Waste Disposal Research Division, KAERI) Park, Seunghun (Dept. of Energy Resources Engineering, Inha University) Kim, Geon-Young (Radioactive Waste Disposal Research Division, KAERI) Baik, Min-Hoon (Radioactive Waste Disposal Research Division, KAERI) |
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