Forty years of durability assessment of nuclear waste glass by standard methods

CL Thorpe, JJ Neeway, CI Pearce, RJ Hand… - npj Materials …, 2021 - nature.com
Standard methods to assess the durability of vitrified radioactive waste were first developed
in the 1980's and, over the last 40 years, have evolved to yield a range of responses …

Recent advances in corrosion science applicable to disposal of high-level nuclear waste

GS Frankel, JD Vienna, J Lian, X Guo, S Gin… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
High-level radioactive waste is accumulating at temporary storage locations around the
world and will eventually be placed in deep geological repositories. The waste forms and …

Insight into silicate-glass corrosion mechanisms

C Cailleteau, F Angeli, F Devreux, S Gin, J Jestin… - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
The remarkable chemical durability of silicate glass makes it suitable for a wide range of
applications. The slowdown of the aqueous glass corrosion kinetics that is frequently …

Radionuclides containment in nuclear glasses: an overview

S Gin, P Jollivet, M Tribet, S Peuget, S Schuller - Radiochimica Acta, 2017 - degruyter.com
Radioactive waste vitrification has been carried out industrially in several countries for
nearly 40 years. Research into the formulation and long term behavior of high and …

The fate of silicon during glass corrosion under alkaline conditions: a mechanistic and kinetic study with the International Simple Glass

S Gin, P Jollivet, M Fournier, C Berthon, Z Wang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract International Simple Glass–a six oxide borosilicate glass selected by the
international nuclear glass community to improve the understanding of glass corrosion …

Deciphering the non-linear impact of Al on chemical durability of silicate glass

K Damodaran, JM Delaye, AG Kalinichev, S Gin - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of Al in aluminosilicate glasses remains somewhat a mystery: at low concentrations,
it increases the resistance to hydrolysis of the glass, whereas at high concentrations an …

Glass dissolution rate measurement and calculation revisited

M Fournier, A Ull, E Nicoleau, Y Inagaki… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
Aqueous dissolution rate measurements of nuclear glasses are a key step in the long-term
behavior study of such waste forms. These rates are routinely normalized to the glass …

Review of intermediate-scale field tests in support of disposal of waste forms

JJ Neeway, HP Emerson, RM Asmussen… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Nuclear waste has been generated from commercial nuclear reactors and from past nuclear
weapons production activities. The safe disposal of this waste generally is planned to …

New insights into phosphate based materials for the immobilisation of actinides

S Neumeier, Y Arinicheva, Y Ji, JM Heuser… - Radiochimica …, 2017 - degruyter.com
This paper focuses on major phosphate-based ceramic materials relevant for the
immobilisation of Pu, minor actinides, fission and activation products. Key points addressed …

An experimental study of the dissolution rates of simulated aluminoborosilicate waste glasses as a function of pH and temperature under dilute conditions

EM Pierce, EA Rodriguez, LJ Calligan, WJ Shaw… - Applied …, 2008 - Elsevier
Single-pass flow-through tests were conducted to determine the pH (7–12) and temperature
(23–90° C) dependence of kinetic rate law parameters; ko, η, and Ea, for the dissolution of …