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How much does corrosion of nuclear waste matrices matter

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Fig. 1: Total (summed) dose maxima and dose ranges for spent fuel, vitrified high-level waste and intermediate-level waste for a range of ‘what if’ scenarios.

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Mallants, D., Chapman, N. How much does corrosion of nuclear waste matrices matter. Nat. Mater. 19, 959–961 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0741-5

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