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Recent News

25 Feb 2015
Electrochemical Study of Doped Uranium Oxide (UO2) in Slightly Alkaline Sodium Carbonate/Bicarbonate Solutions
This recent research project was designed to investigate the influence of carbonate/bicarbonate, the key groundwater constituents likely to influence fuel dissolution inside a failed nuclear waste disposal container, on the reactivity of different uranium oxide (UO2) specimens. A cyclic voltammetric (CV) study of doped UO2 (Dy-UO2, Gd-UO2, 1.5 at% SIMFUEL and UO2.002) in 0.1 M...
05 Feb 2015
Electrochemical and Surface Analytical Measurements on Cu-Coated Steel Specimens
The proposed Canadian container for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel consists of a dual wall comprised of an outer shell of copper over an inner low alloy steel vessel. Because of manufacturing and fabrication challenges for thick-walled containers, a thin-walled alternative design is being developed. Their fabrication involves coating copper directly on the surface...
27 Jan 2015
New EDX Analyzer Installed on FESEM
SSW has recently upgraded the EDX system on our Hitachi S4500 field emission SEM to a Quartz PCI XOne SSD X-ray analyzer. The system consists of a PulseTor Maxim silicon drift detector (SDD) combined with a Quartz Imaging XOne image and EDX capture software. The state-of-the-art detector is electronically cooled and has excellent energy resolution...
19 Dec 2014
Holiday Season Hours
A quick note for our clients. Surface Science Western will be closed over the holidays starting on Wednesday, December 24th and returning Monday, January 5th (8 am). Season’s greetings to all from the staff at SSW