Nuclear waste articles within Scientific Reports

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• Article
  20 March 2024 | Open Access

  Momentum informed muon scattering tomography for monitoring spent nuclear fuels in dry storage cask

  • JungHyun Bae
  • , Rose Montgomery
  •  & Stylianos Chatzidakis

• Editorial
  11 March 2024 | Open Access

  Long-term, sustainable solutions to radioactive waste management

  Nuclear power plays a pivotal role in ensuring a scalable, affordable, and reliable low-carbon electricity supply. Along with other low-carbon energy technologies, nuclear energy is essential for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, addressing climate change and air pollution, and achieving a sustainable economy. Whilst significant progress has been made in reducing the volume of final radioactive waste, its management remains one of the most important challenges when considering the continued use and expansion of nuclear energy. This recently published collection highlights the latest technological and scientific advances aimed to improve the safe, long-term, and sustainable management of wastes produced from nuclear power generation.

  • Kristina Kvashnina
  • , Francis Claret
  •  & Tiankai Yao

• Article
  30 January 2024 | Open Access

  Temperature-humidity evolution and radon exhalation mechanism of red clay-bentonite covering layer in uranium mill tailings pond

  • Chao Xie
  • , Wenjun Lu
  •  & Tao Yu

• Article
  27 September 2023 | Open Access

  In-air and in-water performance comparison of Passive Gamma Emission Tomography with activated Co-60 rods

  • Riina Virta
  • , Tatiana A. Bubba
  •  & Peter Dendooven

• Article
  12 September 2023 | Open Access

  Resolving experimental biases in the interpretation of diffusion experiments with a user-friendly numerical reactive transport approach

  • Christophe Tournassat
  • , Carl I. Steefel
  •  & Ruth M. Tinnacher

• Article
  07 August 2023 | Open Access

  A multimodal X-ray spectroscopy investigation of uranium speciation in ThTi₂O₆ compounds with the brannerite structure

  • Malin C. Dixon Wilkins
  • , Luke T. Townsend
  •  & Neil C. Hyatt

• Article
  28 July 2023 | Open Access

  A portable geometry-independent tomographic system for gamma-ray, a next generation of nuclear waste characterization

  • Salvador Tortajada
  • , Francisco Albiol
  •  & José Luis Leganés-Nieto

• Article
  21 June 2023 | Open Access

  Neutron resonance absorption imaging of simulated high-level radioactive waste in borosilicate glass

  • Y. Oba
  • , R. Motokawa
  •  & Y. Okamoto

• Article
  08 June 2023 | Open Access

  Underpinning the use of indium as a neutron absorbing additive in zirconolite by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

  • Lewis R. Blackburn
  • , Luke T. Townsend
  •  & Neil C. Hyatt

• Article
  28 February 2023 | Open Access

  Spectroscopic identification of Ca-bearing uranyl silicates formed in C–S–H systems

  • Antonia S. Yorkshire
  • , Martin C. Stennett
  •  & Claire L. Corkhill

• Article
  30 January 2023 | Open Access

  Transmutation of MAs and LLFPs with a lead-cooled fast reactor

  • X. Y. Sun
  • , L. H. Han
  •  & L. Liu

• Article
  15 December 2022 | Open Access

  Time-dependence of decontamination efficiency after a fallout of gamma-emitting radionuclides in suburban areas: a theoretical outlook on topsoil removal

  • Christopher L. Rääf
  • , Mats Isaksson
  •  & Robert Finck

• Article
  21 July 2022 | Open Access

  Improved Passive Gamma Emission Tomography image quality in the central region of spent nuclear fuel

  • Riina Virta
  • , Tatiana A. Bubba
  •  & Peter Dendooven

• Article
  08 June 2022 | Open Access

  In-situ γ-ray analysis of ground surface radioactivity using portable HPGe γ spectrometer

  • Zeqian Wu
  • , Bairong Wang
  •  & Changwei Zhao

• Article
  18 May 2022 | Open Access

  Preliminary assessment of the safety factors in K-DEMO for fusion compatible regulatory framework

  • Beom Seok Kim
  • , Suk-Ho Hong
  •  & Keeman Kim

• Article
  16 March 2022 | Open Access

  Risk of colloidal and pseudo-colloidal transport of actinides in nitrate contaminated groundwater near a radioactive waste repository after bioremediation

  • Alexey Safonov
  • , Elena Lavrinovich
  •  & Alexander Novikov

• Article
  15 February 2022 | Open Access

  Refractive index measurements of solid deuterium–tritium

  • Keisuke Iwano
  • , Jiaqi Zhang
  •  & Kohei Yamanoi

• Article
  24 November 2021 | Open Access

  First observation of radiolytic bubble formation in unstirred nano-powder sludges and a consistent model thereof

  • Mel O’Leary
  • , Aliaksandr Baidak
  •  & Fred Currell

• Article
  25 February 2021 | Open Access

  Preparation and characterization of multiphase ceramic designer waste forms

  • Braeden M. Clark
  • , Priyatham Tumurugoti
  •  & James C. Marra

• Article
  28 January 2021 | Open Access

  Quantitative imaging and automated fuel pin identification for passive gamma emission tomography

  • Ming Fang
  • , Yoann Altmann
  •  & Angela Di Fulvio

• Article
  17 December 2020 | Open Access

  The effect of different fuels and clads on neutronic calculations in a boiling water reactor using the Monte Carlo method

  • Mehtap Düz
  •  & Selcan İnal

• Article
  11 June 2020 | Open Access

  The kinetics and mechanism of the uranium hydride - water vapour system under ambient conditions

  • A. Banos
  •  & T. B. Scott

• Article
  06 September 2019 | Open Access

  Closing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle with a Simplified Minor Actinide Lanthanide Separation Process (ALSEP) and Additive Manufacturing

  • Artem V. Gelis
  • , Peter Kozak
  •  & Gregg J. Lumetta

• Article
  04 February 2019 | Open Access

  Selective morphological analysis of cerium metal in electrodeposit recovered from molten LiCl-KCl eutectic by radiography and computed tomography

  • Young Taek Jee
  • , Miran Park
  •  & Jong-Il Yun

• Article
  09 October 2018 | Open Access

  Versatile chemical handling to confine radioactive cesium as stable inorganic crystal

  • Duy Quang Nguyen
  • , Hiromi Eba
  •  & Kenji Sakurai

• Article
  18 June 2018 | Open Access

  In-situ, time resolved monitoring of uranium in BFS:OPC grout. Part 2: Corrosion in water

  • C. A. Stitt
  • , C. Paraskevoulakos
  •  & T. B. Scott

• Article
  23 March 2018 | Open Access

  Ion implantation in nanodiamonds: size effect and energy dependence

  • Andrey A. Shiryaev
  • , Jonathan A. Hinks
  •  & Igor I. Vlasov

• Article
  22 March 2018 | Open Access

  Atomistic scale investigation of cation ordering and phase stability in Cs-substituted Ba_1.33Zn_1.33Ti_6.67O₁₆, Ba_1.33Ga_2.66Ti_5.67O₁₆ and Ba_1.33Al_2.66Ti_5.33O₁₆ hollandite

  • Yi Wen
  • , Yun Xu
  •  & Lindsay Shuller-Nickles

• Article
  14 December 2017 | Open Access

  Fractal analysis of collision cascades in pulsed-ion-beam-irradiated solids

  • J. B. Wallace
  • , L. B. Bayu Aji
  •  & S. O. Kucheyev

• Article
  31 October 2017 | Open Access

  Direct separation of minor actinides from high level liquid waste by Me ₂ -CA-BTP/SiO₂-P adsorbent

  • Shun Yan Ning
  • , Xin Peng Wang
  •  & Yue Zhou Wei

• Article
  26 October 2017 | Open Access

  In situ TEM observation of alpha-particle induced annealing of radiation damage in Durango apatite

  • Weixing Li
  • , Yahui Shen
  •  & Rodney C. Ewing

• Article
  24 October 2017 | Open Access

  Method to Reduce Long-lived Fission Products by Nuclear Transmutations with Fast Spectrum Reactors

  • Satoshi Chiba
  • , Toshio Wakabayashi
  •  & Tadashi Yoshida

• Article
  11 September 2017 | Open Access

  Unique diversity of radioactive particles found in the Yenisei River floodplain

  • Alexander Bolsunovsky
  • , Mikhail Melgunov
  •  & Brit Salbu

• Article
  11 August 2017 | Open Access

  In-situ, time resolved monitoring of uranium in BFS:OPC grout. Part 1: Corrosion in water vapour

  • C. A. Stitt
  • , C. Paraskevoulakos
  •  & T. B. Scott

• Article
  14 July 2017 | Open Access

  Isotopic signature and nano-texture of cesium-rich micro-particles: Release of uranium and fission products from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

  • Junpei Imoto
  • , Asumi Ochiai
  •  & Satoshi Utsunomiya

• Article
  15 February 2017 | Open Access

  Caesium-rich micro-particles: A window into the meltdown events at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

  • Genki Furuki
  • , Junpei Imoto
  •  & Satoshi Utsunomiya

• Article
  03 February 2017 | Open Access

  First On-Site True Gamma-Ray Imaging-Spectroscopy of Contamination near Fukushima Plant

  • Dai Tomono
  • , Tetsuya Mizumoto
  •  & Toru Tanimori

• Article
  01 December 2016 | Open Access

  Evaluation of a Silicon ⁹⁰Sr Betavoltaic Power Source

  • Jefferson Dixon
  • , Aravindh Rajan
  •  & Shannon Yee

• Article
  28 July 2016 | Open Access

  Understanding and simulating the material behavior during multi-particle irradiations

  • Anamul H. Mir
  • , M. Toulemonde
  •  & S. Peuget

• Article
  07 June 2016 | Open Access

  A-site compositional effects in Ga-doped hollandite materials of the form Ba_xCs_yGa_2x+yTi_8−2x−yO₁₆: implications for Cs immobilization in crystalline ceramic waste forms

  • Yun Xu
  • , Yi Wen
  •  & Kyle S. Brinkman