Wayne Lukens

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Projects

Elucidating the behavior of technetium in spinel ferrites and polyoxometalates, model systems for oxide waste forms and naturally occurring magnetite

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Wayne Lukens

Project type

Special Science

Technetium (Tc-99, 211 ka half-life) is the most problematic long-lived fission product due largely to the high environmental mobility of pertechnetate, TcO4-, the most stable form in aerobic…