SummaryThe primary purpose of the work reported here is to analyze the potential effect of the release of technetium (Tc) from metal inclusions in bulk vitrification (BV) waste packages once they are placed in the Integrated Disposal Facility (IDF). As part of the strategy for immobilizing waste from the underground tanks at Hanford, selected wastes will be immobilized using BV. During analyses of the glass produced in engineering-scale tests, metal inclusions were found in the glass product. This report contains the results from experiments designed to quantify the corrosion rates of metal inclusions found in the glass product from Test ES-32B (AMEC 2005) and simulations designed to compare the rate of Tc release from the metal inclusions to the release of Tc from glass produced with the BV process. Due to the probability of oxidizing conditions surrounding the waste packages in the IDF, in the simulations the Tc in the metal inclusions and the glass is conservatively assumed to be released congruently as soluble TcO 4 -. The experimental results and modeling calculations (Bacon and McGrail 2005) show that the metal corrosion rate will, under all conceivable conditions at the IDF, be dominated by the presence of the passivating layer and corrosion products on the metal particles. As a result, the release of Tc from the metal particles at the surfaces of fractures in the glass releases at a rate similar to the Tc present as a soluble salt (McGrail et al. 2003;Pierce et al. 2005). The release of the remaining Tc in the metal is controlled by the dissolution of the glass matrix.The dissolution kinetics of iron [Fe(0)] was quantified under conditions of constant dissolved O 2 [O 2 (aq)] and in solutions that minimized the formation of a passive film on the metal surface. These tests were performed to determine the forward reaction rate for the metal inclusions in the BV glass. Single-pass flow through (SPFT) tests were conducted over the pH(23°C) range from 7.0 to 12.0 and temperature range from 23°C to 90°C. The presence of EDTA minimized the formation of a passive film and Fe-bearing secondary phase(s) during testing allowing us to determine the forward dissolution rate. These results indicate that the corrosion of Fe(0) is relatively insensitive to pH and temperature and the forward rate is 3 to 4 orders of magnitude higher than when a passive film and corrosion products are present. Tests conducted with Amasteel (a low carbon steel non-radioactive surrogate) and ES-32B metal indicated that the forward dissolution rates for both metals were similar, if not identical. In other words, the presence of P and 99 Tc in the ES-32B metal appeared to have little effect on the forward dissolution rate. These results indicate that the corrosion rate of the ES-32B metal at repository relevant conditions was not significantly less than the surrogate metal. Because the effects of temperature (E a = 15 ±5 kJ/mol at pH(23°C) = 9.0 based on Fe release from ES-32B metal) and solution pH (η = -0.13 ±0.02 at 70°C based on Fe releas...