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The effect of phosphate melt cooling rate on phase composition and leach resistance of final waste form
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2017
Abstract
Slow cooling of phosphate melt at liquid nuclear waste solidification yields glass-crystalline material. Partial crystallization during melt solidification results in elemental partitioning among crystalline phase and glass: Al, Cr, Fe are concentrated in the crystalline phosphate phase while Ca, Ni, La, U enter predominantly in the residual glass. Glass dissolution rate and leach rate of La and U as rare earth and actinide surrogates depends strongly on the glass composition, for example reduction of Al2O3 content in the glass to ∼10-12 wt.% increases leachability by three orders of magnitude as compared to the glass with specified composition (∼18-22 wt.% Al2O3).
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- MRS Advances , Volume 3 , Issue 20: Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XLI , 2018 , pp. 1085 - 1091
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- Copyright © Materials Research Society 2017
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