The question of silicate glass chemical durability is at the heart of many industrial and
environmental issues, with certain glasses, such as bioglasses, needing to transform rapidly …

The immobilization of long-lived radionuclide wastes generated from nuclear power plants
(NPPs) during NPP operation, fuel reprocessing, and decommissioning of nuclear reactors …

Adequate shielding from ionizing radiations is essential in nuclear facilities because of such
radiations' adverse effects on humans in the event of unwanted or accidental exposure. In …

The porosity and pore-size distribution in the glass play an important role in glass corrosion;
however, such information is difficult to be obtained non-destructively. Here we report the …

Aluminosilicate glasses are materials with a wide range of technological applications. The
field strength of network-modifying cations strongly influences the structure of …

It has been well established that borosilicate glass dissolves much more slowly in saturated
silica solutions than in deionized water. The present study assesses this assertion for the …

The chemical durability of borosilicate glass used to confine nuclear wastes is known to vary
nonlinearly with their composition, making glass dissolution rate predictions difficult. Here …

The effect of alumina mole fraction on the 7-day Product Consistency Test (PCT) responses,
ln [NL α], of simulated nuclear waste glasses was examined. It was found that the effect is …

Abstract International Simple Glass altered for years in silica saturated conditions develops
a passivating gel, which retains some mobile elements such as B and Ca in its inner region …

Fresh volcanic ash samples collected during the eruptions of the Hudson (1991), Chaitén
(2008), Puyehue (2011), Calbuco (2015) and Copahue (2016) volcanoes were analyzed in …