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PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF WASTES PRODUCED BY ATOMIC POWER INDUSTRY
Pages 26-27

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... The primary radioactive wastes result from the chemical extraction of inhibitory fission products from metallic reactor elements. A strong nitric acid solution of aluminum heavily contaminated with a variety of fission products is obtained after the useful reactor fuel is recovered.
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... L Culler, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, before Meeting on Ocean Disposal of Reactor Wastes, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, August 5-6, 1954.
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