Nuclear waste management /

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"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 18).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- Waste immobilisation -- 3. Current directions -- Geological disposal of high-level nuclear waste -- Spent nuclear fuel -- Plutonium : waste or resource? -- 4. Outlook.Nuclear waste--the radioactive by-product from nuclear power generation, nuclear weapons and medical isotope production--is one of the most challenging types of waste for our society to manage. Its high radioactivity requires that it be safely isolated from humans and the environment until it no longer poses a hazard; of the order of a million years. This review will show that nuclear waste management is a world of materials science and engineering challenges that must stand the test of time, from designing engineered facilities to isolate waste from future civilisations, to inventing new materials to immobilise weapons-grade and surplus civil plutonium. Due to the ever-changing nature of nuclear waste, which transforms its chemical composition and physical properties through radioactive decay processes, nuclear waste management is also a race against time that will continue to drive research and development for many years to come.Final-year undergraduates, new PhD students and early-career scientists.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Claire Corkhill is a Reader in mineralogy and materials science at the University of Sheffield, UK, and currently holds an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Early Career Research Fellowship. Her research focuses on understanding the relationship between surface chemistry, microstructure and dissolution kinetics in nuclear waste materials. Her particular focus is the corrosion of oxide ceramics (e.g. uranium oxide), aluminoborosilicate glass and cement materials. Recent work includes development of synchrotron-based diffraction and spectroscopy methodologies to observe slow material degradation processes over long timescales, relevant to the geological disposal of nuclear waste. Neil Hyatt holds a Chair in Radioactive Waste Management in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK , is a visiting Professor at Washington State University, and is a member of HM's Government Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board (NIRAB). He is Director of the NucleUS Immobilisation Science Laboratory, the UK's leading academic centre for radioactive waste research. His research focuses on developing strategy, materials, processes and policy to support the safe, timely and efficient clean-up of the UK radioactive waste legacy. A key aspect of his research is the design, manufacture and performance assessment of glass and ceramic materials for the immobilisation of plutonium residues, legacy intermediate level wastes and high level wastes from reprocessing operations.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 11, 2018).

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1 online resource (x, 18 pages) :illustrations (some color).

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English

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9780750316385

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621.48/38

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Radioactive waste disposal.
Nuclear power & engineering.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Nucle

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Claire Corkhill and Neil Hyatt.

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