Challenges with vitrification of Hanford High-Level Waste (HLW) to borosilicate glass–An overview

A Goel, JS McCloy, R Pokorny, AA Kruger - Journal of Non-Crystalline …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Hanford site in Washington State houses~ 56 million gallons of radioactive
wastes stored in 177 underground tanks. The waste must be immobilized and permanently …

Polyoxometalate clusters in minerals: review and complexity analysis

SV Krivovichev - … Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering …, 2020 - scripts.iucr.org
Most research on polyoxometalates (POMs) has been devoted to synthetic compounds.
However, recent mineralogical discoveries of POMs in mineral structures demonstrate their …

Water dynamics and structure of highly concentrated LiCl solutions investigated using ultrafast infrared spectroscopy

SA Roget, KA Carter-Fenk… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In highly concentrated salt solutions, the water hydrogen bond (H-bond) network is
completely disrupted by the presence of ions. Water is forced to restructure as dictated by …

Machine learning with gradient-based optimization of nuclear waste vitrification with uncertainties and constraints

LGL Gunnell, K Manwaring, X Lu, J Reynolds, J Vienna… - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Gekko is an optimization suite in Python that solves optimization problems involving mixed-
integer, nonlinear, and differential equations. The purpose of this study is to integrate …

A review of sodium fluoride solubility in water

JG Reynolds, JD Belsher - Journal of Chemical & Engineering …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The solubility of NaF in water is important to a number of industries, but there is a limited
review of the large amount of solubility data scattered throughout the literature. The present …

Gibbsite solubility in Hanford nuclear waste approached from above and below saturation

JG Reynolds, JK McCoskey… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Liquid Hanford nuclear wastes are highly concentrated caustic aqueous electrolyte
solutions. They contain elevated dissolved aluminum concentrations compared to simple …

A method to apply Zavitsas' aqueous electrolyte model to multicomponent solutions and its equivalence to Zdanovskii's rule

JG Reynolds - AIChE Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Zavitsas developed an aqueous electrolyte thermodynamic model and applied it to single
electrolyte solutions previously. Here, a method to apply the model to multicomponent …

A crucible salt saturation method for determining sulfur solubility in glass melt

T Jin, D Kim, LP Darnell, BL Weese… - … Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Experiments were conducted to determine sulfur solubility in Hanford low‐activity waste
(LAW) glass melts by a sulfur saturation method. Sulfur‐incorporated glass melts were …

Structural diversity and complexity of antiperovskites

SV Krivovichev - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The overview of more than 280 antiperovskites as compounds based upon the units formed
by condensation of XA 6 anion-centered octahedra (X= anion; A= cation) shows that there …

A Review of Sodium Oxalate Solubility in Water

JG Reynolds, MD Britton, R Carter - Industrial & Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The solubility of disodium oxalate is important to many industries. This study compiled and
statistically assessed the disodium oxalate solubility data available between 273 and 373 K …