Review Article
The Influence of Radiation on Confinement Properties of Nuclear Waste Glasses
Table 5
Dynamics of UK189 glass leaching with
238PuО
2 additive as source of
α-radiation [
51,
52].
| Total dose, α/g | HLW storage time equivalent to dose absorbed (years) | Leaching rate (mg/(cm2 × day)) |
| 0.89 × 1018 | 7000 | 1.6 | 2.0 × 1018 | 250000 | 2.3 | 2.7 × 1018 | 500000 | 2.3 | 3.3 × 1018 | 700000 | 2.3 | 5.5 × 1018 | 1400000 | 3.2 |
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The leaching rate of unirradiated UK 189 glass (Table 6) was 1.3 ± 0.2 mg/cm 2 day. |