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Title: Effects of rocks and backfill materials on waste glass leaching

Abstract

Extensive studies have been made on the interactions between a waste glass and repository materials under static conditions. One of the PNC reference glasses was leached in the solution prepared from water in contact with crushed granite, tuff, diabase and backfill materials such as bentonite and zeolite. The leachant solutions except for some bentonite solutions reduced the glass leach rate compared with that measured in distilled water. The extent of the reduction was a function of silicon concentration in solution. The bentonite solutions enhanced the glass dissolution rate by a factor of 2 to 3 at low bentonite/water ratios but the effect was found to be less important at high bentonite/water ratios and in the long-term experiment. Addition of granite and zeolite to the bentonite solutions decreased the leach rate below the value measured in distilled water.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp., Tokai-mura, Japan
OSTI Identifier:
60618
Report Number(s):
CONF-850995-
Journal ID: MRSPDH; ISSN 0272-9172
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 50; Conference: Materials Research Society international symposium, Stockholm (Sweden), 9-12 Sep 1985; Other Information: PBD: 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 05 NUCLEAR FUELS; GLASS; LEACHING; BENTONITE; DISSOLUTION; GRANITES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; TUFF; WASTE-ROCK INTERACTIONS; WATER; ZEOLITES; Yucca Mountain Project

Citation Formats

Ishiguro, K, Sasaki, N, Kashihara, H, and Yamamoto, M. Effects of rocks and backfill materials on waste glass leaching. United States: N. p., 1986. Web.
Ishiguro, K, Sasaki, N, Kashihara, H, & Yamamoto, M. Effects of rocks and backfill materials on waste glass leaching. United States.
Ishiguro, K, Sasaki, N, Kashihara, H, and Yamamoto, M. 1986. "Effects of rocks and backfill materials on waste glass leaching". United States.
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title = {Effects of rocks and backfill materials on waste glass leaching},
author = {Ishiguro, K and Sasaki, N and Kashihara, H and Yamamoto, M},
abstractNote = {Extensive studies have been made on the interactions between a waste glass and repository materials under static conditions. One of the PNC reference glasses was leached in the solution prepared from water in contact with crushed granite, tuff, diabase and backfill materials such as bentonite and zeolite. The leachant solutions except for some bentonite solutions reduced the glass leach rate compared with that measured in distilled water. The extent of the reduction was a function of silicon concentration in solution. The bentonite solutions enhanced the glass dissolution rate by a factor of 2 to 3 at low bentonite/water ratios but the effect was found to be less important at high bentonite/water ratios and in the long-term experiment. Addition of granite and zeolite to the bentonite solutions decreased the leach rate below the value measured in distilled water.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/60618}, journal = {Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings},
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volume = 50,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1986},
month = {Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1986}
}