Materials for Nuclear Waste Immobilization

• Main Author: Ojovan, Michael I (auth)
• Other Authors: Hyatt, Neil C. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; actinides; corrosion; modeling; paper sludge ash; americium; geological repository; seawater; burnup credit; spark plasma sintering; glass composite materials; spent nuclear fuel; leaching processes; zeolite polymer composite fiber; crystalline ceramics; glass; lanthanum; inorganic synthesis; durability; leaching; layered double hydroxides LDH; plutonium; sedimentation; conditioning; criticality safety; uranium; radionuclide; sintering; vitrification; rare earth elements; loading curves; silver iodide; forward dissolution rate; caesium phosphomolybdate; waste form; fractional release; alkali borosilicate glass; immobilisation; iodine; lesukite; geopolymer; radioactive cesium; ceramics; cesium adsorbed; immobilization; wasteforms; secondary phases; cesium; safe storage; borosilicate glass corrosion; research reactor fuel element U3Si2-Al; strontium; in situ fluid-cell Raman spectroscopy; magnesium potassium phosphate compound; chlorine; neodymium; zirconium molybdate; heavy ion irradiation; nuclear waste; microscopy; hazardous water
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Summary

The book outlines recent advances in nuclear wasteform materials including glasses, ceramics and cements and spent nuclear fuel. It focuses on durability aspects and contains data on performance of nuclear wasteforms as well as expected behavior in a disposal environment.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (220 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-03921-847-9
9783039218462
9783039218479

Access

Open Access