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