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Carbon steel is used as the vessel steel for nuclear reactors. After its life in the power plant, it contains carbon-14. When the carbon steel is disposed of as nuclear waste, the carbon-14 is released. This paper describes how fast and in what chemical form the carbon-14 is released.
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This page is a summary of: Carbon-14 release and speciation from carbon steel in highly alkaline conditions, Radiocarbon, October 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/rdc.2018.92.
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