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Reference Number	EP/R004870/1
Title	Modelling of glasses as nuclear waste forms
Status	Completed
Energy Categories	Nuclear Fission and Fusion(Nuclear Fission, Nuclear supporting technologies) 100%;
Research Types	Basic and strategic applied research 100%
Science and Technology Fields	PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics) 100%
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation	Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator	Dr K Trachenko No email address given Physics and Astronomy Queen Mary, University of London
Award Type	Standard
Funding Source	EPSRC
Start Date	04 December 2017
End Date	03 December 2020
Duration	36 months
Total Grant Value	£367,991
Industrial Sectors	Energy
Region	London
Programme	Energy : Energy
Investigators	Principal Investigator	Dr K Trachenko , Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London (99.999%)
	Other Investigator	Professor MT Dove , Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London (0.001%)
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Abstract	This proposal addresses the pressing need to find suitable methods to safely encapsulate nuclear waste. This is required in order to make the nuclear industry sustainable and is also necessary for the environmental reasons due to large amount of legacy waste already accumulated. We model new types of glasses as encapsulation matrices and perform state-of-the-art molecular dynamics simulations to understand the stability of glasses and their suitability for long-term encapsulation of nuclear waste.We calculate several important properties of novel glass compositions including the activation energy for crystallization and phase separation as well as structure. We compare our results with the structural and thermodynamic experiments performed by our US partners. This will enable us to gain atomistic understanding of what governs stability of glasses at the microscopic level and predict their long-term performance.
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Final Report	(none)
Added to Database	07/01/19