The question of silicate glass chemical durability is at the heart of many industrial and
environmental issues, with certain glasses, such as bioglasses, needing to transform rapidly …

High-level radioactive waste is accumulating at temporary storage locations around the
world and will eventually be placed in deep geological repositories. The waste forms and …

Nuclear energy is considered a clean, reliable, and an inexhaustible energy source for
power generation. Nuclear power is harnessed from nuclear fission reactions in a dedicated …

In this research, a comprehensive multi-technique analysis, including synchrotron-based X-
ray micro-computed tomography, is used to visualize the microstructure of alteration in a …

The role of Al in aluminosilicate glasses remains somewhat a mystery: at low concentrations,
it increases the resistance to hydrolysis of the glass, whereas at high concentrations an …

The chemical durability of borosilicate glass used to confine nuclear wastes is known to vary
nonlinearly with their composition, making glass dissolution rate predictions difficult. Here …

In this study, we used ReaxFF reactive force field molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to
investigate the dynamics associated with reactivity at the sodium aluminosilicate (NAS) …

The irradiation of glass by heavy ions induces structural damage, generally leading to a
decrease in its chemical durability whose amplitude strongly depends on the glass chemical …

Achieving thinner and higher performance display/substrate glasses and transparent glass-
ceramics with tunable properties requires a precise control of acid-etching process, thus …

This review covers the corrosion interactions between different materials that are relevant to
the disposal of high-level nuclear waste, in particular the waste forms and containers. The …