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Overview of the clay-mineralogy studies presented at the ‘Clays in natural and engineered barriers for radioactive waste confinement’ meeting, Brussels, March 2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. Van Geet*
Affiliation:
ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials, Avenue des Arts 14, 1210 Brussels, Belgium
R. Dohrmann
Affiliation:
Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie (LBEG), Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hannover, Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hannover, Germany
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