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XPS and ion beam scattering studies of leaching in simulated waste glass containing uranium
Glass samples (consisting of 2 mole % UO/sub 3/ dissolved in a number of complex borosilicate simulated waste glasses including Battelle 76-68) were leached for varying times in distilled water at 75/sup 0/C. The glass surfaces were examined before and after leaching using x-ray photoemission spectroscopy and back-scattered ion beam profiling. Leached samples showed enhanced surface layer concentrations of several elements including uranium, titanium, zinc, iron and rare earths. An experiment involving the leaching of two glasses in the same vessel showed that the uranium surface enhancement is probably not due to redeposition from solution
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/sup 57/Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy of U/sub 6/Fe
Samples of U/sub 6/Fe were prepared by arc melting U and enriched /sup 57/Fe. The samples display superconducting transitions which are sensitive to long-term exposure to air. Room temperature spectra of U/sub 6/Fe typically display a majority site A (quadrupole splitting ..delta.. = 0.749(3) mm/s, isomer shift delta = 0.482(6) mm/s relative to Cu) and a minority site B (..delta.. = 0.55(3) mm/s, sigma = 0.12(3) mm/s) with the site intensity ratio (I/sub B//I/sub A/) typically 0.05 to 0.10. The I/sub B//I/sub A/ intensity ratio increases upon air exposure of the samples. We have studied Moessbauer spectra as a function of temperature T in the range 15/sup 0/K less than or equal to T less than or equal to 310/sup 0/K paying particular attention to the T-variation of the isomer-shift and recoil-free-fraction of the majority site A. Results indicate a consistent softening of lattice vibrations of U/sub 6/Fe at T approx. = 170/sup 0/K