scholarly journals Materials Characterization Center workshop on leaching mechanisms of nuclear waste forms, May 19-21, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Summary report

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Mendel
1981 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Strachan

The Nuclear Waste Materials Characterization Center at Pacific Northwest Laboratory is developing standard tests to obtain data on nuclear waste forms, barriers, and backfills. These tests include performance measurements of thermal, radiation, mechanical, and chemical properties. Five tests have been developed to determine the chemical durability of waste forms under either static (MCC-IP and MCC-2P) or flowing (MCC-4S and MCC-5S) leaching environments. Maximum credible release by waste forms is determined using powders and stirred solutions (MCC-3S).


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 667
Author(s):  
Yanxia Lu ◽  
Qing Peng ◽  
Chenguang Liu

The α-decay of incorporated actinides continuously produces helium, resulting in helium accumulation and causing security concerns for nuclear waste forms. The helium mobility is a key issue affecting the accumulation and kinetics of helium. The energy barriers and migration pathways of helium in a potential high-level nuclear waste forms, La2Zr2O7 pyrochlore, have been investigated in this work using the climbing image nudged elastic band method with density functional theory. The minimum energy pathway for helium to migrate in La2Zr2O7 is identified as via La–La interstitial sites with a barrier of 0.46 eV. This work may offer a theoretical foundation for further prospective studies of nuclear waste forms.


2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Jiang ◽  
B. P. Uberuaga ◽  
K. E. Sickafus ◽  
F. M. Nortier ◽  
J. J. Kitten ◽  
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1982 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.M. Strachan ◽  
R. P. Turcotte ◽  
B. O. Barnes

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