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Nuclear Energy
Marvin Baker Schaffer
Toward a viable nuclear waste disposal program
Energy Policy, Volume 39, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 1382–1388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.12.010 Article history
Received 16 August 2010
Accepted 6 December 2010
Available online 13 January 2011

M.I. Ojovan, W.E. Lee
20 – Nuclear Waste Disposal
An Introduction to Nuclear Waste Immobilisation (Second Edition), Oxford, 2014, Pages 321–335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-099392-8.00020-6 Article history
Available online 3 December 2013

Marvin Baker Schaffer
Abundant thorium as an alternative nuclear fuel: Important waste disposal and weapon proliferation advantages
Energy Policy, Volume 60, September 2013, Pages 4–12 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.04.062 Article history
Received 10 May 2012
Accepted 26 April 2013
Available online 30 May 2013

Ricardo Luis Pereira dos Santos, Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, Maurício Cardoso Arouca, Alan Emanuel Duailibe Ribeiro
The importance of nuclear energy for the expansion of Brazil's electricity grid
Energy Policy, Volume 60, September 2013, Pages 284–289 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.05.020 Article history
Received 6 June 2012
Accepted 8 May 2013
Available online 13 June 2013
E.F. Cassiraga, D. Fernàndez-Garcia, J.J. Gómez-Hernández
Performance assessment of solute transport upscaling methods in the context of nuclear waste disposal
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Volume 42, Issues 5–6, July–September 2005, Pages 756–764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2005.03.013 Article history
Accepted 2 March 2005
Available online 25 May 2005

Manfred Lenzen
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear energy: A review
Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 49, Issue 8, August 2008, Pages 2178–2199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2008.01.033 Article history
Received 13 June 2007
Accepted 31 January 2008
Available online 8 April 2008

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