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2024: The Year in Nuclear—July through September
Another calendar year has passed. Before heading too far into 2025, let’s look back at what happened in 2024 in the nuclear community. In today's post, compiled from Nuclear News and Nuclear Newswire are what we feel are the top nuclear news stories from July through September 2024.
Stay tuned for the top stories from the rest of the past year.
Xiangdong Feng, Ian L. Pegg, Aaron Barkatt, Pedro B. Macedo, Samuel J. Cucinell, Shantao Lai
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 3 | June 1989 | Pages 334-345
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34255
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The effects on durability of composition variations in West Valley Nuclear Services Company preliminary waste glass composition WV205 are discussed. MCC-3 results at times from 7 to 180 days are presented for 50 glass compositions. The results are suggestive of a large plateau region where durability is good and weakly dependent on composition, adjoining a region in which durability is a much steeper function of composition. The same effect is observed when the redox state of the iron, which comprises ∼12 wt% of the glass, is varied. The general trends are discussed in terms of the structural roles of the components. The effects of the alkalies and alkaline earths correlate quite well with the field strengths of these ions.
