Current understanding and remaining challenges in modeling long-term degradation of borosilicate nuclear waste glasses

International Journal of Applied Glass Science

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 283-294

  Vienna, John D ^a   Ryan, Joseph V ^a   Gin, Stéphane ^b   Inagaki, Yaohiro ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Research Department of Mining and Fuel Recycling ProCesses   (France)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION EXCHANGE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SURFACE REACTIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHEMICAL DURABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE; GLASS SURFACES; HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTES; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR WASTE GLASS; SOLUTION CHEMISTRY;

GLASS;

EID: 84896752057     PISSN: 20411286     EISSN: 20411294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijag.12050     Document Type: Article

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