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Deep Isolation asks states to include waste disposal in their nuclear strategy
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation is asking that the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) consider how spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste will be managed under its strategy for developing advanced nuclear power projects in participating states.
Claudio Pescatore, Albert J. Machiels
Nuclear Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 297-300
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32857
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When leaching is controlled by a diffusion process, leach test results are particularly simple to interpret when test specimens approximate semi-infinite media. For spherical and cylindrical leach test samples, a criterion relating the test duration T, the specimen radius R, and the effective bulk diffusion coefficient D, to the desired degree of concurrence to the semiinfinite geometry behavior P, is shown to be given by: From the proposed criterion, it is concluded that, for glass waste forms, the semi-infinite geometry approximation is met by most test samples except possibly for finely crushed material