Professor Goel Awarded DoE Grants to Study Radioactive Waste Immobilization

Photograph courtesy of Savannah River National Laboratory.

Professor Goel of the MSE faculty has been awarded a $800,000 grant over 3 years and an additional $150,000 grant for 1 year from the U.S. Department of Energy to work towards developing glasses and ceramics for radioactive waste immobilization.

The $800,000 grant has been awarded in the framework of Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) to develop glass-bonded ceramic waste forms for immobilization of iodine-129 and mixed halide radioactive wastes. The details about this project can be obtained from www.neup.gov.

The $150,000 grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy – Office of River Protection (DOE-ORP) to study nucleation and crystallization in sodium- and alumina-rich high level nuclear waste glasses.

Both the projects are in collaboration with Prof. John McCloy from Washington State University, WA and scientists from Radiological Materials and Technology Development Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, WA.