Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering | Radioactive Waste Management

Hypothesis and Theory

Published on 05 Sep 2025

Foundations of site selection procedures for deep geological repositories: an argument-based model to explain how site rejection decisions can be justified by inaccurate operationalizations and assessments of long-term protection

in Radioactive Waste Management

Martin Navarro

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2025.1664370

975 views

Review

Published on 31 Jul 2025

EURAD state-of-the-art report: thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of clay buffers at high temperatures

in Radioactive Waste Management

María Victoria Villar
Katerina Cernochova
Jaime Cuevas
Antonio Gens
Natalia Gimeno
Caroline Graham
Jon Harrington
Vlastislav Kašpar
Stephan Kaufhold
Olivier Leupin

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2025.1436087

1,357 views

Review

Published on 28 Mar 2025

EURAD state-of-the-art report: thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour at high temperature of host clay formations

in Radioactive Waste Management

María Victoria Villar
Pierre Bésuelle
Frédéric Collin
Robert Cuss
Christophe de Lesquen
Arnaud Dizier
Ginger El Tabbal
Antonio Gens
Caroline Graham
Dragan Grgic

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2025.1436490

2,341 views
1 citation

Review

Published on 20 Jan 2025

EURAD State-of-the-Art Report: Assessment of the chemical evolution at the disposal cell scale – part II – gaining insights into the geochemical evolution

in Radioactive Waste Management

Guido Deissmann
Erika Neeft
Diederik Jacques

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1433257

3,480 views

Review

Published on 20 Jan 2025

EURAD State-of-the-Art Report: ACED assessment of the chemical evolution at the disposal cell scale—part I—processes at interfaces and evolution at disposal cell scale

in Radioactive Waste Management

Erika Neeft
Guido Deissmann
Diederik Jacques

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1433247

3,302 views

Original Research

Published on 03 Jan 2025

Opportunities for the further development of the Safety Case for deep geological repositories by transdisciplinary research – FEP catalogs and scenario development

in Radioactive Waste Management

Marcel Ebeling
Martina Heiermann
Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1416508

967 views

Review

Published on 22 Nov 2024

EURAD state-of-the-art report on the understanding of radionuclide retention and transport in clay and crystalline rocks

in Radioactive Waste Management

Norbert Maes
Sergey Churakov
Martin Glaus
Bart Baeyens
Rainer Dähn
Sylvain Grangeon
Laurent Charlet
Felix Brandt
Jenna Poonoosamy
Alwina Hoving

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1417827

2,293 views
3 citations

Perspective

Published on 21 Oct 2024

Borehole disposal of spent fuel and other high-level wastes: the case for deep, vertical, fully cased holes in saturated “hard” rock

in Radioactive Waste Management

Fergus Gibb
John Beswick
Karl Travis

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1470443

1,836 views

Original Research

Published on 16 Oct 2024

Transdisciplinary research on the safety case for nuclear waste repositories with a special focus on uncertainties and indicators

in Radioactive Waste Management

Martina Heiermann
Vinzent Olszok

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1414964

1,030 views
2 citations

Review

Published on 09 Oct 2024

EURAD state-of-the-art report: development and improvement of numerical methods and tools for modeling coupled processes in the field of nuclear waste disposal

in Radioactive Waste Management

F. Claret
N. I. Prasianakis
A. Baksay
D. Lukin
G. Pepin
E. Ahusborde
B. Amaziane
G. Bátor
D. Becker
A. Bednár

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1437714

5,212 views
8 citations

Review

Published on 18 Jul 2024

WP15 ConCorD state-of-the-art report (container corrosion under disposal conditions)

in Radioactive Waste Management

Andrés G. Muñoz
Abdesselam Abdelouas
Ursula Alonso
Ana María Fernández
Rizlan Bernier-Latmani
Andrea Cherkouk
Roberto Gaggiano
James Hesketh
Nick Smart
Cristiano Padovani

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1404739

10,762 views

Original Research

Published on 17 Jun 2024

Optimized precipitation process for the treatment of radioactive effluents from Ni-alloy decontamination using a chemical oxidation reduction process

in Radioactive Waste Management

Mathurin Robin
Aditya Rivonkar
Tomo Suzuki-Muresan
Abdesselam Abdelouas
Marcel Mokili

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1396821

11,621 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 21 Mar 2024

Key results from examinations of seven high burnup pressurized water reactor spent nuclear fuel rods

in Radioactive Waste Management

Rose Montgomery
Bruce Bevard
Paul Cantonwine
Yadukrishnan Sasikumar

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1321627

2,026 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 28 Feb 2024

Methods for the destruction of oxalic acid decontamination effluents

in Radioactive Waste Management

Jessica Blenkinsop
Aditya Rivonkar
Mathurin Robin
Thomas Carey
Barbara Dunnett
Tomo Suzuki-Muresan
Cavit Percin
Abdesselam Abdelouas
Jonathan Street

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2024.1347322

6,505 views
5 citations

Original Research

Published on 27 Nov 2023

Solids, colloids, and the hydrolysis of tetravalent uranium in chloride media

in Radioactive Waste Management

B. Grambow
R. Müller
D. Schild
X. Gaona

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2023.1308064

2,270 views

Editorial

Published on 21 Nov 2023

Editorial: Solubility phenomena in the context of nuclear waste disposal

in Radioactive Waste Management

Xavier Gaona
Bernd Grambow
Taishi Kobayashi
Hye-Ryun Cho
Sarah A. Saslow

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

doi 10.3389/fnuen.2023.1332806

988 views