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Direct observations of the leaching of a simulated nuclear waste glass in a radiation environment |
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| Authors: | D. K. McElfresh J. F. DeNatale D. G. Howitt E. P. Butler |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering , University of California , Davis , California , 95616;2. Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science , Imperial College of Science and Technology , London , England |
| Abstract: | The durability of the media proposed for the containment of commercial nuclear waste will be affected not only by the differences in groundwater composition that they might encounter but also by the changes that their own irradiation fields will make to these solutions. Experimental results that question the ability of current leaching experiments to predict the stability of nuclear waste composites are presented. |
| Keywords: | 18O diffusion bulk Cr2O3 Cr2O3 scales ridge model |