Center for Performance and Design of Nuclear Waste Forms and Containers (WastePD)

wastepd

Director

Gerald Frankel


Lead Institution

Ohio State University


Class

2016-2022


Mission

to understand the fundamental mechanisms of waste form performance and apply that understanding to design new waste forms with improved performance.


Research Topics

extreme environments, nuclear, defects, corrosion, water, geophysics/geochemistry, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel systems)


Systems Studied

Systems: metal, oxide, ceramic, glass, electrolytes

Interfaces: inorganic/inorganic, liquid/solid

Nanostructured: None


Experimental and Theoretical Methods

X-ray diffraction and scattering, electron microscopy, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), multiscale modeling, machine learning, data science


Partner Institutions

  • Citrine
  • Commissariat à l'Energie
  • Louisiana State University
  • Ohio State University
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • QuesTek Innovations LLC
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • University of North Texas
  • University of Virginia
 

BES Staff Contact

Philip Wilk, John Vetrano