Review of zirconolite crystal chemistry and aqueous durability

LR Blackburn, DJ Bailey, SK Sun… - … in Applied Ceramics, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Zirconolite (CaZrTi2O7) has been identified as a candidate ceramic wasteform for the
immobilisation and disposal of Pu inventories, for which there is no foreseen future use …

Simultaneous immobilization of radionuclides Sr and Cs by sodium zirconium phosphate type ceramics and its chemical durability

J Wang, Y Wei, J Wang, X Zhang, Y Wang, N Li - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
Sodium zirconium phosphate (NaZr 2 (PO 4) 3, NZP) type phosphate compounds have been
considered as a candidate material for the immobilization of radionuclides. In this work, the …

Incorporation of Th4+ and Sr2+ into Rhabdophane/Monazite by Wet Chemistry: Structure and Phase Stability

X Zhao, W Wang, Y Teng, Y Li, X Ma, Y Liu… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rhabdophane is an important permeable reactive barrier to enrich radionuclides from
groundwater and has been envisaged to host radionuclides in the backend of the nuclear …

Structural integrity of Cs and Sr immobilized lacunar apatite phosphate simulated ceramic wasteform Na0. 9Cs0. 1Pb3Sr (PO4) 3 under heat and aqueous flow

R Ravikumar, B Gopal - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Lacunar apatite host, NaPb 4 (PO 4) 3 was converted into a ceramic wasteform with the
incorporation of Cs and Sr ions. The systematic substitution yielded the wasteform …

Sr/Ce co-immobilization evaluation and high chemical stability of novel Sr0.5Zr2(PO4)3–CePO4 composite ceramics for nuclear waste forms

J Wang, L Zhan, J Wang, J Wen, L Fan… - Journal of the Australian …, 2022 - Springer
Sodium zirconium phosphate (labeled as NZP)-monazite-type (1-x) Sr0. 5Zr2 (PO4) 3–x
CePO4 (x= 0–1.0) composite ceramics, which were designed to simultaneously immobilize …

Phase evolution in reaction sintered Th-Monazite ceramic waste forms by SPS and PLS

J Wen, X Zhao, X Zheng, Y Teng, Y Li, L Wu… - Ceramics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Monazite ceramic is one of the potential waste forms to incorporate actinides in planned
nuclear waste repositories. Inspired by recent progress on the low-temperature sintering and …

Studies on the variation of structural and thermodynamic properties of charge coupled substituted NaxEuxCa10‐2x (PO4) 6F2 solid solutions (x= 0.5–2.0)

P Das, BG Vats, M Shafeeq, P Samui, S Kesari… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Owing to the importance of fluorapatite matrices for immobilization of nuclear waste, a
systematic study was undertaken to explore the variation of structural and thermodynamic …

Exploring the influence of lanthanides on the structure and thermodynamic stability of SrLnTh(PO4)3 (Ln = La, Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd)

D Rawat, BG Vats - Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 2023 - Springer
The disposal of high-level nuclear waste (HLW) presents major challenges due to the
presence of a wide range of long-lived radionuclides, necessitating the development of an …

Densification study of sodium zirconium phosphate-type ceramic for immobilizing radionuclides of Sr prepared with microwave sintering from uranium tailing sand

J Li, G Chen, QC Zhang, K Shi, T Zhang, Y **e… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2024 - Springer
Strontium zirconium phosphate (SrZr4 (PO4) 6) ceramics has high density and chemical
inertness, which can safely and effectively immobilize the divalent fission product Sr in the …

Thermodynamic stability and leaching behaviour of Ba and Th charge-coupled substituted monazite solid solution (La1-xBax/2Thx/2) PO4 (x= 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3) and its …

D Rawat, RK Mishra, S Dash, R Mishra - Thermochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Monazite (LnPO 4, Ln= light rare-earth elements; La-Gd) and its solid-solutions are
potential candidates for the immobilization of long-lived minor actinides. Thermodynamic …