
When Glass Ages: How a Self-Protecting “Gel” Makes Nuclear Waste Glass More Durable
How does borosilicate glass, the material used to lock away high-level radioactive waste, hold up after not just months, but decades in water? Our new study, led by the University of Montpellier and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA, Marcoule) tracks a simplified glass (CJ2) from 7 days to 27 years and […]