The storage of spent nuclear fuels for long periods of time in geological repositories is one
proposed solution to the stewardship of legacy, current and future nuclear waste. Recent …

The ability to predict the equilibrium constants for the formation of 1: 1 uranyl/ligand
complexes (log K 1 values) provides the essential foundation for the rational design of …

The design of a safe spent nuclear fuel repository requires the knowledge of the stability of
the secondary phases which precipitate when water reaches the fuel surface. Studtite is …

Extracting uranium from uranium mine wastewater is highly important from both the
environmental protection and the resource preservation perspectives. However …

Studtite is known to exist at the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle as an intermediate phase
formed in the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. In the thermal decomposition of studtite, an …

Recent accidents resulting in worker injury and radioactive contamination occurred due to
pressurization of uranium yellowcake drums produced in the western USA The drums …

The structure, thermodynamic and mechanical properties of becquerelite mineral, Ca (UO2)
6O4 (OH) 6· 8H2O, were studied by means of theoretical solid-state calculations based on …

U (VI) peroxide phases (studtite and meta‐studtite) are found throughout the nuclear fuel
cycle and exist as corrosion products in high radiation fields. Peroxides are part of a family of …

A rutherfordine mineral was studied by means of Raman spectroscopy combined with first
principle calculations based on the density functional theory (DFT) method. The …

The use of a limited set of signatures in nuclear forensics and nuclear safeguards may
reduce the discriminating power for identifying unknown nuclear materials, or for verifying …