Migration and Immobilization of Radionuclides in Nuclear Waste Disposal

Part I Overview of nuclear waste  1 Natural radioactivity and anthropogenic radioactivity  2 Nuclear waste generation and potential risks in the nuclear industry  Part II Characteristics of nuclear waste  3 Principles of Nuclear Waste Management  4 Nuclear waste processing, transport and storage  5 Nuclear Waste Disposal and Migration in Geochemical Systems: Insights from Recent Advances in Mineral-Microbe Interactions  6 Nuclear Disasters and Practical Accident Management  7 Radiochemistry of the key radionuclides in high-level waste  Part III Nuclear waste treatment technologies  8 Radioactive Waste Immobilization in Cementitious Materials  9 Radioactive waste immobilization in glass composite material  10 Radioactive Waste Immobilization in Ceramic and Novel Materials  Part IV Radionuclide migration in the disposal and storage sites  11 Aquatic chemistry and transport of key radionuclide in repository environments  12 Radionuclide diffusion and other migration processes in the biosphere  13 Redox Reactions and Radiolysis of Radionuclide Migration  14 Radionuclides adsorption/desorption at mineral-water interfaces: Mechanisms, influencing factors, and environmental implications  15 Effects of Clay-Biocomposite Colloids on Radionuclide Transport Behavior and Mechanisms  Part V Future prospects and conclusions  16 Research Gaps, Challenges, and Prospects for Nuclear Waste Management

Biography

Binglin Guo is a professor and a National Excellent Young Scholar at the School of Civil Engineering, Hefei University of Technology. He is the director of the Anhui Engineering Research Center for Low-Carbon Technology of Cementitious Materials. His research interests include solid waste utilization, environmental cement chemistry, and low-carbon cementitious materials.

Bin Ma is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and a National Excellent Young Scholar. He is also a professor of cement environmental chemistry at North China Electric Power University in Beijing, China. His research interests include solid waste disposal chemistry and cement environmental chemistry, especially radioactive waste treatment.

Lei Wang is a Hundred-Talent Program Research Fellow, a National Excellent Young Scholar, and a Humboldt Fellow at the College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests include sustainable waste-to-energy technologies, low-carbon hazardous waste treatment, and CO₂ sequestration and utilization in minerals.