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Phosphate-Sulfate Interaction in Simulated Low-level Radioactive Waste Glasses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
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Using simulated low-level radioactive waste glasses, interaction between phosphate and sulfate in the glass network was systematically studied using Raman spectroscopy. Phosphate and sulfate interaction was shown to depend on the extent of saturation of both species in the glass. At elevated concentration level of phosphate and sulfate in combination, yet below the solubility limits, phosphate and sulfate both separated from the glass. In the 7-day product consistency test (PCT), the phase separated glasses were found to have higher normalized releases of sodium, phosphorous, sulfur, boron, and silicon than those of their baseline glasses without phase separation.
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