May 2016

Waste Management 2016 conference proceedings published

Saehwa Chong and José Marcial published proceedings from the Waste Management 2016 conference, held in March in Phoenix, Arizona. J. Marcial, J. Kabel, M. Saleh, Y. Shaharyar, A. Goel, J. McCloy, “Effect of B on Crystallization of Li and Na aluminosilicates,” Proc. Waste Management WM2016, 16323 (2016). https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2016/pdfs/16323.pdf S. Chong, J. Peterson, B. Riley, and […]

Ancient glass work featured

Our work on studying ancient Swedish hillfort glasses was recently featured in WSU News (https://news.wsu.edu/2016/04/25/ancient-glass-glued-fortification-studied-nuke-waste-solutions/) and this story was picked up by several online news feeds. The original paper discussed in the press release can be found here (http://ceramics.org/wp-content/bulletin/2016/May16/May-2016-Bulletin-Ensuring-longevity.pdf).

José Marcial wins WSU’s MRS chapter microscopy contest

José took 1st place in both microscopy categories this year for this images.  Below are the writeups and images.  Great job José!   Winner for “Technical Image” Title: Distribution of elemental species of crystallized Hanford high‐level nuclear waste glass Description: Vitrification of Hanford high‐level nuclear waste glasses requires careful balancing of the composition. High additions […]