Author Description

The 52 contributions explore technical issues involving the use of ceramic materials in the storage of nuclear waste. The main themes are vitrification operations and testing, waste form modeling, the development of alternative waste forms, environmental solutions, waste form durability, cement waste form and green products, waste form properties, and waste form treatability studies and characterization. Among the specific topics are an assessment of accelerated corrosion data for waste glasses, chemically bonded phosphate ceramics for stabilizing low-level radioactive wastes, off-gas emissions from slurry-fed Joule-heated melters, short-term effects of solution chemistry and long-term sodium release, porous materials from fly ash, the dynamics of silicate melts with radionucleates near the melt- glass transition region, and the effects of heating on salt- occluded zeolite. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.