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Leach Models for a Commercial Nuclear Waste Glass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

William L. Kuhn  and
Richard D. Peters
William L. Kuhn
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington
Richard D. Peters
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington
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Abstract

A review of the leaching behavior of 76–68 glass shows that it cannot be explained in terms of diffusion in the glass, which has been the basis for several leach models. Instead, we present two models based on a dissolution rate impeded by surface processes: the accumulation of a protective layer of insoluble reaction products, and adsorption of reaction products on the surface. The resulting predicted time dependences are identical and predict a change from linear to parabolic rate laws for soluble species, which is found to agree with the data over a range of temperatures. Incongruent release is attributed primarily to solubility effects. The relative merits of the models are discussed on the basis of the effect of surface area-to-volume ratio in static leach tests. Their relevance to modeling repository behavior is discussed.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 15: Symposium D – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management VI , 1982 , 167
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1983

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