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Probing electronic environment in gamma irradiated sodium borosilicate glass and simulated waste glass: a perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy study

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Time Differential Perturbed Angular Correlation (TDPAC) has been used to investigate the local structural changes (if any) in Sodium borosilicate (NBS) Glass and Simulated Waste Oxide loaded sodium borosilicate glass (SNBS) used for immobilization of high-level liquid waste at Trombay, Mumbai. The glasses were doped with 181Hf tracer as TDPAC probe and irradiated with varying dose (1–50 MGy) of gamma radiation using 60Co (average γ energy 1.25 MeV) source. Hyperfine interaction parameters (quadrupole interaction frequency, its distribution and asymmetry of electric field gradient) were obtained for irradiated NBS and SNBS glasses from fitting of TDPAC data using DPAC software. The data was compared with the corresponding unirradiated glasses. Results do not show any micro-crystallinity upon irradiation in both the NBS and SNBS glass even at the highest gamma dose of 50 MGy even though small changes were observed in quadrupole interaction frequency at doses beyond 30 MGy. This suggests that the sodium borosilicate glass used for immobilization of high-level waste at Trombay is stable towards gamma radiation at least up to a gamma dose of 50 MGy.

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B.S. Tomar acknowledges the support from the Department of Atomic Energy towards Raja Ramanna fellowship.

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  1. Radiochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India

    Ashwani Kumar

  2. Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai, 400094, India

    Ashwani Kumar & B. S. Tomar

  3. Waste Management Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India

    R. K. Mishra & C. P. Kaushik

  4. Radiation Technology Development Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India

    Y. K. Bhardwaj

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Kumar, A., Mishra, R.K., Bhardwaj, Y.K. et al. Probing electronic environment in gamma irradiated sodium borosilicate glass and simulated waste glass: a perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy study. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 328, 569–576 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-07686-z

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