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IAEA: Gunfire, drone attack at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
The International Atomic Energy Agency team at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) reported hearing gunfire near the site this morning while a drone hit the plant’s training center.
In a news release today, IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi said this is the third drone to target the training center, located just outside the site perimeter, so far this year. He called for an immediate end to drones being flown over or near nuclear facilities.
Naohito Uetake, Yoshihiro Ozawa, Makoto Kikuchi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | November 1984 | Pages 221-227
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33512
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A low-temperature waste glass synthesis method for reducing the volatilization of radioactive high-level liquid waste (HLLW) components and the corrosion of furnace materials has been developed on a laboratory scale. This method is a sol-gel method, using the gel formation reaction of a sodium silicate solution in combination with calcination and sintering processes. Experiments to investigate the method’s feasibility were conducted with nonradioactive simulated HLLW, and the glass obtained was characterized by infrared and Mössbauer spectroscopy. It was concluded that the radioactive waste glass synthesis was achieved by calcination at ∼600°C.
