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Glass Degradation in Performance Assessment Models1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2015

William L. Ebert
William L. Ebert*
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, U.S.A
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Abstract

The interface with reactive transport models used in performance assessment calculations is described to identify aspects of the glass waste form degradation model important to long-term predictions. These are primarily the conditions that trigger the change from the residual rate to the Stage 3 rate and the values of those rates. Although the processes triggering the change and controlling the Stage 3 rate are not yet understood mechanistically, neither appears related to an intrinsic property of the glass. The sudden and usually significant increase in the glass dissolution rate suggests the processes that trigger the increase are different than the processes controlling glass dissolution prior to that change. Application of a simple expression that was derived for mineral transformation to represent the kinetics of coupled glass dissolution and secondary phase precipitation reactions is shown to be consistent with experimental observations of Stage 3 and useful for modeling long-term glass dissolution in a complex disposal environment.

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waste managementsecond phasescorrosion
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1744: Symposium EE – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXXVIII , 2015 , pp. 163 - 172
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2015 

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