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Electron Backscattered Diffraction for the Study of Matrices for Immobilization of Actinides Composed of the Murataite-Type Phases

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Electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) has been used to analyze structures of natural minerals and artificial compounds for almost three decades. In recent years, it is applied in nuclear power engineering to study irradiated nuclear fuel and matrices for immobilization of radionuclides. The potential of EBSD for studying the structures of ceramics consisting of murataite-type phases, which are proposed for immobilization of actinides, is considered. A specific feature of these matrices is the presence of a few structurally related compounds (zirconolite, murataite, their polytypes, and pyrochlore), forming zonal crystals. The combined use of EBSD, scanning electron microscopy/energy-dispersive spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction analysis would allow one to determine more reliably the structure of these phases.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to O.I. Stefanovskaya for synthesizing murataite ceramics by sintering and melting methods and to B.S. Nikonov for the help in their analysis. We also thank the reviewer, whose remarks improved the paper.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 20-05-00058-a (subject “Crystal Chemistry of Matrices for Long-Lived Radionuclides”).

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Nickolsky, M.S., Yudintsev, S.V. Electron Backscattered Diffraction for the Study of Matrices for Immobilization of Actinides Composed of the Murataite-Type Phases. Crystallogr. Rep. 66, 130–141 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063774521010090

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