Covering state-of-the-art advances, novel applications, and future perspectives, this volume
presents new directions on the basic studies of charged particle and photon interactions with …

The primary waste form resulting from nuclear energy production is spent nuclear fuel (SNF).
There are a number of different types of fuel, but they are predominantly uranium based …

High level waste (HLW) management requires being able to demonstrate the safety over
geological timescales, typically 1My. This can be made possible by using a rigorous …

Significant amounts of spent uranium dioxide nuclear fuel are accumulating worldwide from
decades of commercial nuclear power production. While such spent fuel is intended to be …

Even though chemical processes related to the corrosion of spent nuclear fuel in a deep
geological repository are of complex nature, knowledge on underlying mechanisms has very …

Helium plays an important role in determining nuclear fuel performance both in-pile
(especially for MOX fuels and those at high burnup) and in storage conditions. Predictive …

The safe management of high‐level nuclear wastes, including their final disposal in a deep
geological repository, requires a sound scientific understanding of the processes affecting …

In order to model correctly the corrosion of spent nuclear fuel under disposal conditions, it is
important to understand its behavior in the presence of oxidants. To advance in this …

Dissolution experiments have been performed in order to determine the solubility constant of
coffinite, USiO 4. Several assemblages of phases were used in under-saturated experiments …

Abstract The Fuel Matrix Dissolution Model (FMDM) is an electrochemical reaction/diffusion
model for the dissolution of spent uranium oxide fuel. The model was developed to provide …