Center for Performance and Design of Nuclear Waste Forms and Containers (WastePD)
Director
Gerald Frankel
Lead Institution
Ohio State University
Class
2016-2020
Mission
to understand the fundamental mechanisms of waste form performance and apply that understanding to design new waste forms with improved performance.
Research Topics
nuclear, defects, corrosion
Materials Studied
Materials: metal, oxide, ceramic, glass
Interfaces: gas/solid, liquid/solid
Nanostructured Materials: None
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), multiscale modeling, machine learning
Partner Institutions
- Commissariat à l'Energie, France
- 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
