Preface |
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings |
Keynote Address |
Yucca Mountain Project Status / Thomas E. Kiess ; Stephen H. Hanauer |
Performance Assessment and Regulatory Studies |
Grimsel Test Site--The Next Decades / Stratis Vomvoris ; Wolfgang Kickmaier ; Ian G. McKinley |
Assessment of Geochemical Containment Properties in the Near-Field of a Deep Underground Repository / Delphine Pellegrini ; Laurent De Windt |
Modeling Element Concentrations in Aspo Groundwaters / Allan T. Emren |
Consequences of the Anticipated Long-Term Evolution of Spent Nuclear Fuel for the Assessment of the Release Rate of Radionuclides / Christophe Poinssot ; Patrick Lovera ; Cecile Ferry ; Jean-Marie Gras |
Waste Form Release Calculations for Performance Assessment of the Hanford Immobilized Low-Activity Waste Disposal Facility Using a Parallel, Coupled Unsaturated Flow and Reactive Transport Simulator / Diana H. Bacon ; B. Peter McGrail |
Accounting for Corrosion of HLW Glasses by Humid Air in TSPA / W.L. Ebert ; J.C. Cunnane ; N.L. Dietz |
Computer Simulations of Hydration, Alteration, and Release From Waste Glasses Using a Cell Model / Fernando C. Perez-Cardenas ; Hao Gan ; Ian L. Pegg |
Risks and Uncertainties Associated With High-Level Waste Tank Closure / David W. Esh ; Anna H. Bradford ; Kristina L. Banovac ; B. Jennifer Davis |
Accounting for EBR-II Metallic Waste Form Degradation in TSPA / M.A. Lewis ; T.L. Barber ; S.G. Johnson |
Archaeology and Waste Management |
New Developments in Field Studies of Low Activity Waste Glass Corrosion and Contaminant Transport / B.P. McGrail ; D.H. Bacon ; P.D. Meyer ; M.I. Ojovan ; D.M. Strachan ; N.V. Ojovan ; I.V. Startceva |
Results From Burial Experiments With Simulated Medieval Glasses / Hannelore Romich ; Sandra Gerlach ; Peter Mottner ; Florias Mees ; Patric Jacobs ; Dirk van Dyck ; Teresa Domenech Carbo |
The Conservation of Ancient Glass / Alice Boccia Paterakis |
Glass Waste Forms |
Results of Vertical Scanning Interferometry (VSI) of Dissolved Borosilicate Glass: Evidence for Variable Surface Features and Global Surface Retreat / J.P. Icenhower ; A. Luttge ; M.S. Beig ; R.S. Arvidson ; E.A. Rodriguez ; J.L. Steele ; S.R. Baum |
Electron Microscopy Study of Reaction Sintered HLW Glass / Weiliang Gong ; Werner Lutze |
Analytical Electron Microscopy Study of Electron Radiation Damage in Iron Phosphate Glass Waste Forms / K. Sun ; L.M. Wang ; R.C. Ewing |
Molybdenum in Nuclear Waste Glasses--Incorporation and Redox State / R.J. Short ; R.J. Hand ; N.C. Hyatt |
Mechanism of Sulfate Segregation During Glass Melting / Pavel Hrma ; John D. Vienna ; Joel S. Ricklefs |
Alteration of Si-B-Na-Al Model Glass in Water at 90[degree]C: Experiments and Thermodynamic Modeling / Isabelle Munier ; Jean-Louis Crovisier |
Effects of Iron and pH on Glass Dissolution Rate / Seung-Young Jeong ; William L. Ebert |
Fitting Element Profiles for Predicting Glass Dissolution Rates in Synthetic Interstitial Clay Water / Marc Aertsens ; Karel Lemmens ; Pierre Van Iseghem |
SON68 Glass Dissolution Kinetics at High Reaction Progress: Experimental Evidence of the Residual Rate / S. Gin ; P. Frugier |
Vapor Phase Hydration of Magnox Waste Glass / Neil C. Hyatt ; William E. Lee ; Russell J. Hand ; Michael I. Ojovan ; Paul K. Abraitis ; Charlie R. Scales |
Fission Product Immobilization in Secondary Phases Formed During Magnox Waste Glass Dissolution at 60[degree]C: Experimental Results and Modeling |
Extension of the Modified Associate Species Thermochemical Model for High-Level Nuclear Waste: Inclusion of Chromia / Theodore M. Besmann ; Karl E. Spear |
Cold Crucible Vitrification of NPP Operational Waste / Feodor A. Lifanov ; Sergey V. Stefanovsky ; Rudolf Burcl |
Long Term Durability Testing of Simulated Iron-Phosphate Nuclear Waste Glass / H. Haworth ; D.J. Wronkiewicz ; D.E. Day |
Crystalline Ceramics and Radiation Effects |
Investigation of Single Crystal Zircon, (Zr,Pu)SiO[subscript 4], Doped With [superscript 238]Pu / John M. Hanchar ; Boris E. Burakov ; Evgeniy B. Anderson ; Maria V. Zamoryanskaya |
Experimental Determination of Dissolution Kinetics of Zr-Substituted Gd-Ti Pyrochlore Ceramics: Influence of Chemistry on Corrosion Resistance / W.J. Weber ; N.J. Hess ; S. Thevuthasen ; B.D. Begg ; K.N. Geiszler |
U- and Hf-Bearing Pyrochlore and Zirconolite and Their Leached Layers Formed in Acidic Solution: TEM Investigation / Huifang Xu ; Yifeng Wang ; Pihong Zhao ; William L. Bourcier ; Richard Van Konynenburg ; Henry F. Shaw |
Structural Characterization of Polycrystalline (Nd,Al)-Substituted Zirconolite / Pascal Loiseau ; Daniel Caurant ; Noel Baffier ; Catherine Fillet |
Characterization of a Cerium-Rich Pyrochlore-Based Ceramic Nuclear Waste Form / R. Giere ; S. Segvich ; E.C. Buck |
Phases Formation and Elements Partitioning in the CaO-Gd[subscript 2]O[subscript 3](UO[subscript 2])-MnO-TiO[subscript 2] System: Application to Rare Earth-Actinide Waste Immobilization / Olga I. Kirjanova ; Sergey V. Yudintsev |
Preparation and Characterization of a Calcium Phosphate Ceramic for the Immobilization of Chloride-Containing Intermediate Level Waste / Brian L. Metcalfe ; Ian W. Donald ; Randy D. Scheele ; Denis M. Strachan |
Dissolution of a Multiphase Waste Form / Michele A. Lewis ; Nancy L. Dietz ; Thomas H. Fanning |
Zirconolite-Based Glass-Ceramics for Actinides Immobilization: Effects of Glass Composition and of Actinides Simulant Nature / Isabelle Bardez ; Odile Majerus |
The Effect of Radiation Damage on Zirconolite Dissolution / Katherine L. Smith ; Zhaoming Zhang ; Peter McGlinn ; Darren Attard ; Huijing Li ; Gregory R. Lumpkin ; Michael Colella ; Terry McLeod ; Zaynab Aly ; Elaine Loi ; Sammy Leung ; Kaye P. Hart ; Mark Ridgway ; William J. Weber ; Suntharampillai Thevuthasan |
Effect of Temperature on Formation of Murataite and Murataite-Pyrochlore Ceramics / O.I. Kirjanova ; S.V. Stefanovsky ; S.V. Yudintsev |
Leaching of Americium-241, Plutonium-238 and Matrix Elements From Perovskite-Based Ceramics / A.V. Ochkin ; S.V. Chizhevskaya ; N.E. Archakova (Cherniavskaya) ; A.O. Merkushkin ; I.A. Petukhova ; N.P. Mikhailenko |
Cathodoluminescence of Am[superscript 3+] in Zircon, (Zr,Pu,...)SiO[subscript 4], and Garnet, (Y,Gd,...)[subscript 3](Al,Ga,...)[subscript 5]O[subscript 12] / Vladimir M. Garbuzov |
Selection of Matrices for Immobilization of Actinide Fraction of HLW / S.I. Rovny |
Phases Formation Rate at Synthesis of Actinide Waste Forms / N.P. Laverov ; M.I. Lapina ; S.C. Chae |
Sodium Zirconium Phosphate [NZP] as a Host Matrix for High Level Radioactive Wastes / Yoshimi Seida ; Mami Yuki ; Kazunori Suzuki ; Toshio Sawa |
Metal Waste Forms |
Characterization of Uranium Speciation in a Metallic Matrix / Gini Curran ; Patrick G. Allen ; Daniel F. Caputo ; Ken R. Czerwinski |
Host Phases for Actinide Elements in the Metallic Waste Form / D.E. Janney |
Ab Initio Studies of Plutonium With Relevance to Nuclear Waste Management / Arun K. Setty ; B.R. Cooper ; D.L. Price |
Spent Fuel |
The Surface Precipitation During UO[subscript 2] Leaching Process / Daqing Cui ; Jerome Devoy ; Kastriot Spahiu |
XPS and SEM Studies on the Corrosion of UO[subscript 2] Containing Plutonium in Demineralized and Carbonated Water / J. Cobos ; T. Wiss ; T. Gouder ; V.V. Rondinella |
Dissolution Behavior and Fission Product Release From Irradiated Thoria-Urania Fuel in Groundwater at 90[degree]C / James L. Jerden Jr. |
The Behavior of Light Water Reactor Fuel After the Cladding is Breached Under Unsaturated Test Conditions / J.A. Fortner ; R.J. Finch |
A Comparison and Abstraction of the Commercial Spent Fuel Corrosion Experiments in the U.S. / Eric R. Siegmann |
Observation of Studtite and Metastudtite on Spent Fuel / Bruce McNamara ; Edgar Buck ; Brady Hanson |
Leaching of Spent Fuel Under Anaerobic and Reducing Conditions / Yngve Albinsson ; Arvid Odegaard-Jensen ; Virginia M. Oversby ; Lars O. Werme |
Effect of [beta]-Radiation on the Non Irradiated UO[subscript 2](s) Dissolution / F. Clarens ; J. Gimenez ; J. de Pablo ; I. Casas ; M. Sevilla ; J. Dies |
Radiolytic Modeling: Application to Spent Fuel Dissolution Experiments / Juan Merino ; Esther Cera ; Jordi Bruno |
Redox Reactions of Iron and Uranium Dioxide in Simulated Cement Pore Water Under Anoxic Conditions / Paul Wersin |
Mobilization/Retention of Radionuclides During Corrosion of High Burnup Spent Fuel and Backfill Materials in Salt Brines / Andreas Loida ; Bernhard Kienzler ; Horst Geckeis |
Synthesis of Uranium Phosphate Phases and Potential Retardation Effects on Spent Fuel Radionuclide Migration / A.S. Turner |
Incorporation of Radioactive Metals and Trace Metals Into Phosphate "Anhydrous" Autunite: Thermodynamic Evaluation |
Neptunium Substitution Into the Structure of Alpha-U[subscript 3]O[subscript 8] / Robert J. Finch ; A. Jeremy Kropf |
Radionuclide Speciation, Colloids and Organics |
Neptunium Speciation in Humic Acid-Rich Clay Water Upon Interaction With Radioactive Waste Glass Samples / V. Pirlet ; P. Van Iseghem |
Role of Naturally Occurring Organic Matter on Thorium Transport in a Wetland / Daniel I. Kaplan ; A.S. Knox |
Natural Ground Water Colloids From the USGS J-13 Well in Nye County, NV: A Study Using SAXS and TEM / Jeffrey A. Fortner ; Carol J. Mertz ; S.F. Wolf ; Peter R. Jemian |
Understanding the Behavior and Stability of Some Uranium Mineral Colloids / Jeff A. Fortner ; Yifen Tsai |
Dynamic Behavior of Colloidal Silica in the Presence of Solid Phase / Taiji Chida ; Yuichi Niibori ; Osamu Tochiyama ; Koichi Tanaka |
Characterization of [alpha]-Isosaccharinic Acid: pK[subscript a]-Determination / S. Ekberg ; C. Ekberg ; Y. Albinsson |
The Effect of Uncertainties in Stability Constants on Speciation Diagrams / Christian Ekberg ; Gunther Meinrath |
Sorption, Migration and Groundwater Chemistry |
Sorption of Pu(III-IV) Onto TiO[subscript 2]: A Preliminary Study / M. Olsson ; H. Nilsson ; A.M. Jakobsson |
Actinide Migration in Granite Fractures: Comparison Between In Situ and Laboratory Results / Jurgen Romer ; Peter Vejmelka ; Mats Jansson ; Trygve E. Eriksen |
Formation Factor Measurements in Granite in the Laboratory--Comparison of Through Diffusion and Electromigration Techniques / Martin Lofgren ; Ivars Neretnieks |
Long-Term Stabilization of Uranium By U(VI) Phosphate Mineralization in Weathered Bedrock and Soils Developed Over a Granite-Hosted Uranium Deposit / A.K. Sinha |
Diffusion and Migration of Ions in Sedimentary Rock Matrix: Behavior of Cesium and Iodide in Micropores of Sandstone / Haruo Sato ; Tamotsu Muraoka |
Cesium and Niobium Transport Through Poorly Cemented Sandstone From Krasnoyarsk-26 (Russian Federation): From Batch to Transport Experiments / Ignasi Casas ; Javier Gimenez ; Joan M. Merino ; Emilio Arasanz ; Joan de Pablo ; Josep Torras ; Miquel Rovira |
Modeling of Biochemical Processes in Rocks: Oxygen Depletion by Pyrite Oxidation--Model Development and Exploratory Simulations / Magnus Sidborn |
Cell Density Dependent Reduction Kinetics of Hexavalent Uranium by Shewanella oneidensis / Lisa Mullen ; Vanja Klepac-Ceraj ; Chanathip Pharino ; Ken Czerwinski ; Martin Polz |
Influence of Organic Matter in the Prediction of Iodine Migration in Natural Environment / Pascal Reiller ; Valerie Moulin |
Reactions Controlling Aspo Groundwater Chemistry |
Evaporative Evolution of Brines from Synthetic Topopah Spring Tuff Pore Water, Yucca Mountain, NV / Maureen Alai ; Susan Carroll |
Effects of Volatilization on Groundwater Chemistry / A.L. Pulvirenti ; K.M. Needham ; M.A. Adel-Hadadi ; E.J. Bishop ; A. Barkatt ; C.R. Marks ; J.A. Gorman |
Sand/Bentonite Barriers and Gas Migration: The GMT Large-Scale In Situ Test in the Grimsel Test Site / S. Vomvoris ; B. Lanyon ; P. Marschall ; K. Ando ; T. Adachi ; A. Fujiwara ; S. Yamamoto |
Impact of Atmospheric Pressure Fluctuations on Vadose-Zone Contaminant Plumes / Wayne C. Downs ; Chang H. Oh ; Todd Housley ; Jeff Sondup |
Effect of Gas Generation in Matrices Containing Ra-226 Sources |
Investigation of Reactor Graphite Processing With the Carbon-14 Retention / O.K. Karlina ; V.L. Klimov ; G.A. Bergman ; G.Yu. Pavlova ; A.Yu. Yurchenko ; S.A. Dmitriev |
A Study on the Chemical Forms and Migration Behavior of Carbon-14 Leached From the Simulated Hull Waste in the Underground Condition / Satoru Kaneko ; Hiromi Tanabe ; Michitaka Sasoh ; Ryota Takahashi ; Takayuki Shibano ; Shinji Tateyama |
Waste-Stream Processing |
Polymer Pendant Crown Thioethers for Removal of Mercury From Acidic Waste Streams--Characterization and Extraction Performance / Theodore F. Baumann ; Glenn A. Fox ; Art J. Nelson ; Joy C. Andrews ; Darrell B. Bishop ; John G. Reynolds |
Synthesis and Evaluation of Resins for Actinide Separations / K.L. Noyes ; N. Charton ; Micheline Draye ; K.R. Czerwinski |
Backfill and Cement |
Redox Properties of MX-80 and Montigel Bentonite-Water Systems / Cecilia Lazo ; Ola Karnland ; Eva-Lena Tullborg ; Ignasi Puigdomenech |
The Effect of pH on Chlorite Dissolution Rates at 25[degree]C / Asa B. Gustafsson |
Migration Behavior of Iron Ion in Compacted Bentonite Under Reducing Condition by Using Electromigration / Kazuya Idemitsu ; Seiji Yano ; Xiaobin Xia ; Yoshiro Kikuchi ; Yaohiro Inagaki ; Tatsumi Arima |
Hydration of Magnesium Oxide in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant / Anna C. Snider |
As, Se, and Re Sorption by Mg-Al Layered Double Hydroxides / Charles R. Bryan ; Paul S. Braterman ; Huizhen Gao |
Maintaining Chemically Reducing Waste-Package Conditions / Charles W. Forsberg ; Leslie R. Dole |
Novel Functionalized Ceramic Getter Materials for Adsorption of Radioiodine / Shas V. Mattigod ; Glen Fryxell ; Kent Parker ; Dan Kaplan |
Systematic Trends and Empirical Modeling of Lead Uptake by Cements and Cement Minerals / Michael Ochs ; Caterina Talerico ; Barbara Lothenbach ; Eric Giffaut |
Effect of Elevated Curing Temperature on Early Hydration and Microstructure of Composite Cements / J. Hill ; B.R. Whittle ; J.H. Sharp ; M. Hayes |
Modeling the Sorption of Actinides Onto Cement: An Approach With the Surface Co-Precipitation Model / Daisuke Sugiyama ; Tomonari Fujita |
Waste Package Materials |
Review of Corrosion Modes for Alloy 22 Regarding Lifetime Expectancy of Nuclear Waste Containers / Raul B. Rebak ; John C. Estill |
Long-Term Extrapolation of Passive Behavior of Alloy 22 / Osvaldo Pensado ; Darrell S. Dunn ; Gustavo A. Cragnolino |
Stability and Aging of Candidate Alloys for the Yucca Mountain Project: CALPHAD Results / P.E.A. Turchi ; L. Kaufman ; Zi-Kui Liu |
Characterization of the Corrosion Behavior of Alloy 22 After Five Years Immersion in Multi-Ionic Solutions / Lana L. Wong ; David V. Fix ; R. Daniel McCright |
Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking of Alloy 22 in Lead-Containing Solutions / Yi-Ming Pan ; Leitai Yang |
Effects of Fluoride and Other Anions on the Corrosion of Alloy 22 |
Characteristics of the Oxides Films Formed on Alloy C-22 / Alan W. Szmodis ; Kelly L. Anderson ; Joseph C. Farmer ; Tiangan Lian ; Christine A. Orme |
Thermogravimetric Thin Aqueous Film Corrosion Studies of Alloy 22; Calcium Chloride Solutions at 150[degree]C and Atmospheric Pressure / Phillip Hailey ; Greg Gdowski |
Assessment of Crevice Corrosion and Hydrogen Induced Stress Corrosion Cracks of Ti-Pd Alloys for HLW Overpack in Deep Underground Water Environments / Guen Nakayama ; Koichi Murakami ; Masatsune Akashi |
Effect of Anions on the Fluoride Corrosion of Titanium-Grade 7 / D.S. Wong |
Real and Reciprocal Space Imaging of Radiation-Induced Defects in bcc Fe / R.E. Stoller ; G.E. Ice ; R.I. Barabash |
Corrosion Behavior of Carbon Steel and Stainless Steel Materials Under Salt Deposits in Simulated Dry Repository Environments / Lietai Yang ; Roberto T. Pabalan ; Lauren Browning |
Sensitivity Studies of Waste Package Performance in High-Level Waste Management / N. Rivera-Feliciano ; T. Bloomer ; T. Ahn ; O. Pensado |
Author Index |
Subject Index |
Preface |
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings |
Keynote Address |