Design, Development and Testing of Miniature Liquid-liquid Extraction Contactors for R&D Studies in Nuclear Environment

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Design, Development and Testing of Miniature

Liquid-liquid Extraction Contactors for R&D Studies in

Nuclear Environment

Hervé Roussel, Sophie Charton

To cite this version:

Hervé Roussel, Sophie Charton. Design, Development and Testing of Miniature Liquid-liquid

Extrac-tion Contactors for R&D Studies in Nuclear Environment. Procedia Chemistry, 2016, 21, pp.487-494.

�10.1016/j.proche.2016.10.068�. �cea-02197141�

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Procedia Chemistry 21 ( 2016 ) 487 – 494

Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of ATALANTE 2016 doi: 10.1016/j.proche.2016.10.068

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