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Comparison of Short‐Term Leaching in Both Radiation‐Damaged and Annealed Nuclear Waste Glasses
Author(s) -
Wald John W.,
Roberts Frank P.,
LACKEY W.J.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1984.tb18832.x
Subject(s) - leaching (pedology) , radioactive waste , borosilicate glass , curium , materials science , recoil , radiochemistry , irradiation , vitrification , saturation (graph theory) , radiation , nuclear chemistry , mineralogy , metallurgy , chemistry , plutonium , environmental science , nuclear physics , americium , physics , mathematics , combinatorics , soil water , soil science
Curium‐doped simulated nuclear waste glasses that received a cumulative α‐recoil dose of 9×10 24 α decays/m 3 were leach‐tested under static conditions in deionized water at 90°C for 14 d. Test results indicate a diflerence of less than a factor of two between annealed and (saturation) radiation‐damaged glass in the release of 244 Cm, glass‐forming constituents, and simulated waste products.