A significant effort was invested in the past to develop and refine mathematical models that
relate the composition of nuclear waste glasses with their properties, such as viscosity …

Pilot-scale melter testing has shown that Al and Fe sources in high-level nuclear waste
feeds influence the glass production rate. To examine melting behaviors of these feeds, we …

The process for converting nuclear waste-to-glass in an electric melter occurs in the cold
cap, a crust of reacting solids floating on the glass pool. As the melter feed (a mixture of the …

The glass production rate, which is crucial for the nuclear waste cleanup lifecycle, is
influenced by the chemical and mineralogical nature of melter feed constituents. The choice …

The feed‐to‐glass conversion, which comprises complex chemical reactions and phase
transitions, occurs in the cold cap during nuclear waste vitrification. To investigate the …

Water affects the glass melting process by interacting with the foam layer at the glass melt
surface and by influencing the batch conversion reactions. Nuclear waste aqueous slurry …

The thermal history of the nuclear waste feed during melting has a strong effect on the rate of
melting, thus strongly affecting the efficiency of the nuclear waste cleanup. Based on our …

During the final stages of batch‐to‐glass conversion in a waste‐glass melter, gases evolving
in the cold cap produce primary foam, the formation and collapse of which control the glass …

The melter feed, slurry, or calcine charged on the top of a pool of molten glass forms a
floating layer of reacting material called the cold cap. Between the cold-cap top, which is …

Nuclear-waste melter feeds are slurry mixtures of wastes with glass-forming and glass-
modifying additives (unless prefabricated frits are used), which are converted to molten …