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Parametric Effects of Glass Reaction Under Unsaturated Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

John K. Bates ,
Thomas J. Gerding  and
Alan B. Woodland
John K. Bates
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.
Thomas J. Gerding
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.
Alan B. Woodland
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.
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Abstract

Eventual liquid water contact of high-level waste glass stored under the unsaturated conditions anticipated at the Yucca Mountain site will be by slow intrusion of water into a breached container/canister assembly. The water flow patterns under these unsaturated conditions will vary, and the Unsaturated Test method has been developed by the YMP to study glass reaction. The results from seven different sets of tests done to investigate the effect of systematically varying parameters such as composition and degree of sensitization of 304L stainless steel, water input volume, and the interval of water contact are discussed. Glass reaction has been monitored over a period of five years, and the parametric effects can result in up to a ten-fold variance in the degree of glass reaction.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 176: Symposium U – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XIII , 1989 , 347
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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