Abstract The Hanford site in Washington State houses~ 56 million gallons of radioactive
wastes stored in 177 underground tanks. The waste must be immobilized and permanently …

Viscous bubbles are prevalent in both natural and industrial settings. Their rupture and
collapse may be accompanied by features typically associated with elastic sheets, including …

Although the vitrification of nuclear waste has a decades‐long history, numerous
opportunities still exist to improve its efficiency and to increase the waste loading in glass …

The utilization of spent nuclear energy inevitably generates high-level waste (HLW), and the
development of safe and efficient treatment technologies for HLW constitutes a significant …

The kinetics of the feed-to-glass conversion affects the waste vitrification rate in an electric
glass melter. The primary area of interest in this conversion process is the cold cap, a layer …

Correlating the melting rates of feeds in electric melters with results of simple laboratory
experiments can help evaluate melter feed additives and their effects on melting rate, and …

During the final stages of batch‐to‐glass conversion in a waste‐glass melter, gases evolving
in the cold cap produce primary foam, the formation and collapse of which control the glass …

Nuclear waste can be vitrified by mixing it with glass‐forming and‐modifying additives. The
resulting feed is charged into an electric glass melter. To comprehend melting behavior of a …

Efficient glass production depends on the continuous supply of heat from the glass melt to
the floating layer of batch, or cold cap. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are employed to …

A predictive model of melt rate in waste glass vitrification operations is needed to inform
melter operations during normal and off‐normal operations. This paper describes the …