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 …

Ceramic mineral waste-forms for nuclear waste immobilization

AI Orlova, MI Ojovan - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Crystalline ceramics are intensively investigated as effective materials in various nuclear
energy applications, such as inert matrix and accident tolerant fuels and nuclear waste …

Current advances on titanate glass-ceramic composite materials as waste forms for actinide immobilization: A technical review

Y Zhang, L Kong, M Ionescu, DJ Gregg - Journal of the European Ceramic …, 2022 - Elsevier
As the emerging versatile waste forms for immobilizing actinide-rich radioactive wastes,
glass-ceramic composite materials based on some durable ceramic phases are being …

Opportunities for advanced ceramics and composites in the nuclear sector

WE Lee, M Gilbert, ST Murphy… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ceramics have played a crucial role in the development of fission based nuclear power, in
glass & glass composite high level wasteforms, in composite cements to encapsulate …

Design and Application of Materials for Sequestration and Immobilization of 99Tc

BK Singh, NS Mahzan, NS Abdul Rashid… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
99Technetium (99Tc) is a hazardous radionuclide that poses a serious environmental threat.
The wide variation and complex chemistries of liquid nuclear waste streams containing 99Tc …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of incorporating a molten salt waste from nuclear power plants on the properties of geopolymers and Portland cement wasteforms

P Perez-Cortes, I Garcia-Lodeiro, F Puertas… - Cement and Concrete …, 2023 - Elsevier
This research studies the effect of incorporating a surrogate molten salt radioactive waste
(labelled as MS, composed of a mixture of carbonates, chlorides and sulphates) on the …

Spark plasma sintering-reactive synthesis of SrWO4 ceramic matrices for 90Sr immobilization

EK Papynov, OO Shichalin, IY Buravlev, AA Belov… - Vacuum, 2020 - Elsevier
The paper studies an original way to obtain mineral-like ceramics matrices suitable for solid
immobilization of a high-energy 90 Sr isotope, which are safe configurations of the active …

Materials for nuclear waste immobilization

NC Hyatt, MI Ojovan - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nuclear energy is clean, reliable, and competitive with many useful applications, among
which power generation is the most important as it can gradually replace fossil fuels and …

Recent advances in alternative cementitious materials for nuclear waste immobilization: a review

N Rakhimova - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since the emergence of the problem of nuclear waste conditioning, cementation has
become an important and developing part of the waste management system, owing to its …

Toward sustainable cementitious radioactive waste forms: Immobilization of problematic operational wastes

RO Abdel Rahman, MI Ojovan - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Developing effective radioactive waste management practices is essential for ensuring the
sustainability of the nuclear industry. The immobilization of radioactive wastes is one of the …