Welcome and Introduction

Stefan Neumeier

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

Status of the German nuclear waste management program and current R&D activities and priorities of the German implementer

Axel Liebscher

BGE, Germany

Effect of Glass Content on the Phase Assemblage and Processing Requirements of Zirconolite Glass-Ceramics for Actinide Immobilisation

Joel L. Abraham¹, Pranesh Dayal², Rifat Farzana², Robert D. Aughterson², Zhaoming Zhang², Rohan Holmes², Gerry Triani², Jessica L. Hamilton³, Charles C. Sorrell¹, Pramod Koshy¹, Daniel J. Gregg²

¹School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia; ²Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Locked Bag 2001, Kirrawee DC, NSW 2232, Australia; ³Australian Synchrotron (ANSTO), Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia

Aeschynite glass-ceramic composites as flexible wasteforms for minor actinide wastes

Malin Christian John Dixon Wilkins, John Stuart McCloy

Institute of Materials Research, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, United States of America

Pollucite Glass-Ceramics for the Immobilisation of Cs-Loaded IONSIV Media

Daniel Gregg¹, Edward Whitelock², Pramod Koshy², Joel Abraham^1,2, Pranesh Dayal¹, Rifat Farzana¹, Ghazaleh Bahman-Rokh¹, Iveta Kurlapski¹, Anton Peristyy¹, Phillip Sutton¹

¹ANSTO, Australia; ²University of New South Wales, Australia

Rare-Earth Phosphate Materials for Nuclear Waste Storage Applications

Mohamed Ruwaid Rafiuddin

UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, United Kingdom

An(IV) doped monazite-cheralite as potential matrices for the long-term conditioning of radionuclides

Alison Roche¹, Stéphanie Szenknect¹, Joseph Lautru¹, Adel Mesbah², Nicolas Clavier¹, Nicolas Dacheux¹

¹ICSM, Univ Montpellier , CNRS, CEA, ENSCM, Site de Marcoule, 30207 Bagnols/Ceze, France; ²Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, IRCELYON, CNRS, 69626 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

Development of Advanced Ceramic Wasteforms for Separated Actinide Disposition

Lewis Blackburn, Amber Mason, Laura Gardner, Luke Townsend, Claire Corkhill

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Sol-Gel Synthesis of Zirconolite Wasteforms

Mohamed Ruwaid Rafiuddin

UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, United Kingdom

Detailed Investigation of Canister-Wasteform Interaction Zone for Pu-bearing Zirconolite-rich Wasteforms

Pranesh Dayal, Rifat Farzana, Yingjie Zhang, Greg Lumpkin, Rohan Holmes, Gerry Triani, Daniel Gregg

ANSTO, Australia

Measurement of Salt Formation during Vitrification with Millimeter Wave Radiometry

John M. Bussey¹, Ian A. Wells¹, Sam E. Karcher¹, Natalie J. Smith-Gray², John S. McCloy¹

¹School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, 99163; ²Walla Walla University, College Place, WA, USA 99324

Influence of SrF2 additions within iron-phosphate glass

Max Rhys Cole, Russell J Hand

Immobilisation Science Laboratory, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Reactivity of Silicate Glasses as a Function of Solution Saturation State

Jonathan P. Icenhower, Nicholas M. Stone-Weiss, Randall E. Youngman, Nicholas J. Smith, Kyle T. Hufziger, Albert J. Fahey, Hugh M. McMahon, Robert R. Hancock, Jenna B. Yehl

Corning Incorporated, United States of America

Durability Testing of Actual Hanford Waste Glasses Versus their Non-Radioactive Simulant Glasses

Joelle T Reiser, Elsa A Cordova, James J Neeway, Scott K Cooley, Benjamin Parruzot, John D Vienna

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America

Inducing the Resumption of Alteration in Simulant UK Radioactive Waste Glasses

Thomas James Foster Ross, Thomas Lawrence Goût, Ian Farnan

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing St., Cambridge, Cambs. CB2 3EQ, UK