Introductory Chapter: Safety Aspects in Nuclear Engineering

Abstract

Research efforts that support the nuclear industry, as in any other industry, could be classified based on the maturity of the technology either commercial or innovative. These efforts are directed to improve the performance of the first class, whereas they aim at getting the second class into wide scale commercial applications [3]. Nuclear engineering research areas that cover the four identified industrial outputs could be listed as follows:

Investigation of the leaching behavior of Na and Si in simulated HLW borosilicate glass obtained from the waste of a 1000 MWe class PWR reactor: using the response surface method

“…The immobilization of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) materials is thought to be the most important step in the final phase of radioactive waste management technology ( Ewing et al, 2004 ; Weber et al, 2009 ; Ojovan and Lee, 2011 ; McCloy and Goel, 2017 ; Hosseinpour Khanmiri and Bogdanov, 2018 ; Hosseinpour Khanmiri et al, 2018 ; Rahman and Saleh, 2018 ; Hyatt and Ojovan, 2019 ; Ojovan and Yudintsev, 2023 ; Hosseinpour Khanmiri et al, 2024 ). Most of the available data is related to the development of materials for the long-term storage or disposal of high-level nuclear waste materials, either from the reprocessing of spent commercial reactor fuels or from a number of defense reprocessing operations.…”