Forty years of durability assessment of nuclear waste glass by standard methods

CL Thorpe, JJ Neeway, CI Pearce, RJ Hand… - npj Materials …, 2021 - nature.com
Standard methods to assess the durability of vitrified radioactive waste were first developed
in the 1980's and, over the last 40 years, have evolved to yield a range of responses …

Glass alteration in atmospheric conditions: crossing perspectives from cultural heritage, glass industry, and nuclear waste management

O Majérus, P Lehuédé, I Biron, F Alloteau… - Npj Materials …, 2020 - nature.com
While glass alteration in liquid water has been widely studied for decades, glass alteration in
unsaturated atmosphere (relative humidity, RH< 100%) has been far less examined …

Structural features of ISG borosilicate nuclear waste glasses revealed from high-energy X-ray diffraction and molecular dynamics simulations

X Lu, M Ren, L Deng, CJ Benmore, J Du - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Vitrification is a widely accepted method to immobilize nuclear waste. Detailed structural
information is critical to understand the physical and chemical behaviors, including the long …

Effects of hollow microsphere surface property on the mechanical performance of high strength syntactic foams

J Yuan, Z An, J Zhang - Composites Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Syntactic foams (SF) with robust impermeable hollow microspheres as density adjuster have
drawn much attention because of their easy-tailored low density, high mechanical strength …

Deterioration mechanisms and advanced inspection technologies of aluminum windows

H Chen, CL Chow, D Lau - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aluminum windows are crucial components of building envelopes since they connect the
indoor space to the external environment. Various external causes degrade or harm the …

Glass/steel/clay interactions in a simulated radioactive waste geological disposal system

I Tolnai, J Osan, O Czompoly, A Sulyok, M Fabian - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Deep geological storage is the accepted solution for the final disposal of high-level
radioactive waste therefore, it is necessary to study the host rock of the planned Hungarian …

Scalable and robust photochemical flow process towards small spherical gold nanoparticles

P Bianchi, G Petit, JCM Monbaliu - Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of a scalable photochemical flow process towards spherical gold
nanoparticles is reported. This protocol relies on a water-soluble acylphosphinate …

Effect of vanadium oxide addition on thermomechanical behaviors of borosilicate glasses: toward development of high crack resistant glasses for nuclear waste …

X Lu, R Sun, L Huang, JV Ryan, JD Vienna… - Journal of non-crystalline …, 2019 - Elsevier
The effect of of V 2 O 5 additions (up to 8 mol%) on the physical properties (eg, density,
glass transition temperature and refractive indices) and mechanical behaviors (eg …

Effects of Al: Si and (Al+ Na): Si ratios on the properties of the international simple glass, part I: Physical properties

JT Reiser, X Lu, B Parruzot, H Liu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding composition‐structure‐property relationships of high‐alumina nuclear waste
glasses are important for vitrification of nuclear waste at the Hanford Site. Two series of …

Degradation-controlling mechanisms in natural organic acid solutions of CaO–Al2O3–SiO2–B2O3 glass-ceramics by partially substituting Ca2+ with Ba2+ and Sr2+

Y Lin, W Ren, Z Zhou, S Chen - Ceramics International, 2023 - Elsevier
The degradation of environmentally friendly CaO–Al 2 O 3–SiO 2–B 2 O 3 (CASB) glass-
ceramics, which consist of anorthite and glass phase, was investigated in three natural …