The chemical stability of vitrified high-level nuclear industry wastes in contact with water was studied experimentally in application to underground disposal of the wastes. The experiments were performed on samples of sodium aluminophosphate glass used in industrial solidification of wastes. Stable isotopes of strontium, cesium, uranium, and rare-earth elements as geochemical analogs of actinides were introduced into the glass to simulate radionuclides. It was observed that water vapor affects the degradation of the glass when vitrified wastes are placed in temporary repositories. It is shown that as a result of the degradation the rate of leaching of the glass in water increases significantly. In addition, a substantial portion of radionuclide simulators in colloidal form goes into the water medium.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 123, No. 3, pp. 144–148, September, 2017.
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Mal’kovskii, V.I., Yudintsev, S.V., Mokhov, A.V. et al. Leaching of Degraded Preservative Matrices, Based on Sodium Aluminophosphate Glasses, for High-Level Wastes. At Energy 123, 177–182 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-018-0321-9
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