Xiaobin Zhang

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…

A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Bonding, Energetics, and Excited States of Uranyl Compounds

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Zheming Wang

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

One of the challenges in experimental investigations of actinide complexes is to determine their structures, bonding, and stabilities in solids and solutions. Our recent TRLIF work on U(VI), the…

Bio-Inspired Actinides Recognition for Separation Science

Lead Institution

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Ping Yang

A critically important problem facing the US is the issue of spent nuclear fuel disposal. The grand challenge here lies in the design of an efficient fuel cycle. The development of chelating…

Projects

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

A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Bonding, Energetics, and Excited States of Uranyl Compounds

Bio-Inspired Actinides Recognition for Separation Science