Published January 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

XAS study of lanthanide ion speciation in borosilicate glass

  • 1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Chemistry and Materials Science Div., CA (USA)
  • 2. Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (USA)
  • 3. Isotope and Nuclear Chemistry Div., Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
  • 4. Dept. of Chemistry, Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff (USA)

Description

The site environment of selected lanthanide ions (Ce, Pr, Gd and Lu) representative of 4f element fission products has been investigated in a typical borosilicate nuclear waste glass. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in combination with other techniques showed that under air-firing conditions the lanthanide ions, except for Ce, enter the glass predominantly in the trivalent state and have well-defined first coordination shells. Approximate coordination numbers of 8±2 (Pr) and 6±2 (Gd, Lu) and metal-oxygen distances of 2.49±0.05 A (Pr), 2.29±0.05 A (Gd) and 2.20±0.05 A (Lu) were deduced. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Journal Volume
116
Journal Issue
1
Series
J. Non-Cryst. Solids.
Journal Page Range
57-62
ISSN
0022-3093
CODEN
JNCSB