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Iron Mössbauer redox and relation to technetium retention during vitrification
Technetium-99 is a long half-life radioactive fission product whose high volatility during waste vitrification (National Research Council, 2001; Migge, Mat Res Symp Proc 127:205–213, 1989) is a factor in the safe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Iron Mössbauer redox and relation to technetium retention during vitrification
Technetium-99 is a long half-life radioactive fission product whose high volatility during waste vitrification (National Research Council, 2001; Migge, Mat Res Symp Proc 127:205–213, 1989) is a factor in the safe...
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Compositional Effects on the Long-Term Durability of Nuclear Waste Glasses: A Statistical Approach
As a result of the development of a reference glass formulation for the immobilization of West-Valley nuclear waste, a large number of glass compositions have been tested under a variety of leaching conditions...
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X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Studies of Speciation of Technetium in Borosilicate Glasses
A series of glass samples were prepared analogously to high level waste glass using either glass frit or glass precursors combined with a high level waste surrogate containing NaTcO4. Three different technetium s...
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X-ray Absorption Studies of Vanadium Valence and Local Environment in Borosilicate Waste Glasses
XANES and EXAFS data were collected and analyzed to characterize vanadium in borosilicate glasses used for immobilization of sulfur-containing nuclear wastes. Earlier studies suggested that adding vanadium to ...
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High-Temperature Melter Tests for Vitrificationof BNFL High-Level Nuclear Wastes
Vitrification has become the international method of choice for the immobilization of highlevel nuclear wastes (HLW) from both commercial and defense fuel reprocessing activities. However, there are clear econ...
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Formulation, Testing, and Structural Characterization of High-Zirconium High-Level Waste Glasses
A range of compositions of high-zirconia borosilicate glasses were formulated and their structures investigated by a combination of techniques. These compositions have potential applications for high-level nuc...
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Optimization of Savannah River M-Area Mixed Waste for Vitrification
Vitrification studies of actual Savannah River M-Area mixed wastes have shown that the limiting factor for high waste loading of this waste stream is its chemical durability as defined by the toxicity characte...
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Non-Linearity in Glass Composition Dependence of Dissolution Rates: Effect of Solution pH
In our previous studies on the optimization of glass compositions for high-level nuclear waste vitrification it was found that, over certain composition ranges, PCT leachate concentrations increased dramatical...