Uranium Surrounding in Borosilicate Glasses from Neutron- and X-ray Diffraction and Reverse Monte Carlo Modelling

Abstract

Borosilicate glasses are important as most promising host materials for immobilizing high-level radioactive wastes, like U-, Pu-oxides [1,2]. However, relatively few structural investigations have been performed on uranium-loaded glasses [3,4] because of the large number of constituent elements which may reach even 10–20 different components.