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Matrices for Isolation of Actinide Wastes in a Deep Well Repository

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Radioactive nuclear waste containing long-lived actinides (Np, Pu, Am, and Cm) is proposed to be placed in well repositories with a depth of up to 5 km. The optimum form of such wastes is crystalline phases that are capacious in relation to radionuclides and stable in mineralized groundwater (brines) heated due to heat generation in the waste and due to the geothermal gradient. In order to find possible phases, we have studied samples of the Nd–Ti–Zr–O system, where Nd3+ acts as an imitator of the rare-earth-actinide fraction of highly radioactive wastes of reprocessed nuclear fuel. The samples were obtained by induction melting in a cold crucible with subsequent melt crystallization. It has been concluded that the Nd2–x(Ti,Zr)2O7–1.5х and Nd4Ti9O24 phases are promising as potential matrices for these wastes. The structure of NdO1.5–TiO2–ZrO2 system at a high temperature has been revealed.

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  1. Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119117, Russia

    S. V. Yudintsev, M. S. Nikolskii, B. S. Nikonov & V. I. Malkovskii

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    S. V. Yudintsev

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Yudintsev, M.S. Nikolskii, B.S. Nikonov, V.I. Malkovskii, 2018, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2018, Vol. 480, No. 2, pp. 217–222.

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Yudintsev, S.V., Nikolskii, M.S., Nikonov, B.S. et al. Matrices for Isolation of Actinide Wastes in a Deep Well Repository. Dokl. Earth Sc. 480, 631–636 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X18050203

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