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Fabrication and physical properties of lanthanide oxide glass wasteform for the immobilization of lanthanide oxide wastes generated from pyrochemical process

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The pyrochemical process, which uses a dry method to recycle used nuclear fuel generates waste LiCl–KCl salt containing radioactive lanthanide elements. To reuse LiCl–KCl salt, the lanthanide elements are separated through a precipitation method promoted by oxygen sparging and the separated fission product of lanthanide oxide should be fabricated into durable wasteforms sustainable for several 1,000 years to store in a final geological repository. Herein, we report the fabrication of a borosilicate glass based wasteform with a glass matrix of SiO2–Al2O3–B2O3 having a high waste loading of 50 wt% lanthanide oxide. Th physical properties of four kinds of wasteforms having a different lanthanide oxide waste composition were evaluated. To investigate the long-term physical stability of each sample having 50 wt% lanthanide oxide waste loading, time–temperature–transformation (TTT) test was conducted at 500 and 700 °C for 60 and 180 h, and the physical properties were evaluated after each TTT test.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. 2012M2A8A5025801), and by the Energy Efficiency & Resources of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by Korea government Ministry of Knowledge Economy (2012T100100477).

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  1. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Waste Treatment Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Yuseong, Daejeon, 305-353, Korea

    Jung-Hoon Choi, In-Hak Cho, Hee-Chul Eun, Hwan-Seo Park, Yung-Zun Cho, Ki-Rak Lee & Geun-Il Park

  2. Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong, Seoul, 133-791, Korea

    Song-Hyun Kim, Chang-Ho Shin & Jong-Kyung Kim

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Jung-Hoon Choi and In-Hak Cho have contributed equally to this work.

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Choi, JH., Cho, IH., Eun, HC. et al. Fabrication and physical properties of lanthanide oxide glass wasteform for the immobilization of lanthanide oxide wastes generated from pyrochemical process. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 299, 1731–1738 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-013-2863-6

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