Donald Johnson

Large-scale computational modeling of the chemical behavior of actinide elements at interfaces

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Wibe De Jong

Project type

Capability Research

High performance parallel computational resources and scalable software has enabled computational chemistry to model actinides at various interfaces, in the presence of multiple ligands in solution,…

Large-scale computational modeling of the chemical transformation of actinide elements at interfaces

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Wibe De Jong

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Subsurface migration of radioactive waste resulting from nuclear energy and weapons production is a critical issue to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the safe and cost-effective disposal of…

Molecular Computational Studies In Geochemistry and Environmental Chemistry

Lead Institution

Corning, Inc.

Principal Investigator

James Rustad

Project type

Capability Research

This project is focused on prediction of reaction rates, mechanisms, and associated isotopic fractionation factors of key processes in low-temperature geochemistry. Such processes can play a key role…

Development of 1st principles dynamics with exact exchange and spin-orbit ZORA

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Eric Bylaska

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

1st principles methods of dynamical simulation will be developed that can treat the complex chemistry of actinide elements. In developing new solvers, emphasis will be placed on methods that will…

Projects

Large-scale computational modeling of the chemical behavior of actinide elements at interfaces

Large-scale computational modeling of the chemical transformation of actinide elements at interfaces

Molecular Computational Studies In Geochemistry and Environmental Chemistry

Development of 1st principles dynamics with exact exchange and spin-orbit ZORA