Surface Science Western Director Professor Dave Shoesmith and Senior Research Scientist Dr. Sridhar Ramamurthy have been awarded an Imperial Oil Limited University Research Award ($25,000) to develop a better understanding of the corrosion behaviour of typical engineering materials used in refinery processes in solutions containing dilute fluoride ions, with and...Read More
Surface Science Western was recently featured on CTV London News. See link for video or copy and paste the link below. http://london.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=801269Read More
We are delighted to report the following from December’s UNENE R&D Workshop in Toronto. This is an annual meeting of UNENE/NSERC Industrial Research Chairs from across the province, their research groups, the UNENE Research Advisory Committee, and nuclear industry stakeholders, including OPG, CNSC, Bruce Power, CNL, CANDU Energy, NWMO, COG,...Read More
The mineral processing group at SSW is actively engaged in both contract and academic research within the mineral processing sector of the Canadian mining industry. The group focuses on the relationship between mineral (ore) chemistry and the recovery strategy of a particular process. The overall goal of the research is...Read More
The safety assessment of the Canadian nuclear waste disposal program requires a fundamental understanding of the processes controlling fuel corrosion which could lead to the release of radionuclides to the geosphere from a failed container. The redox conditions controlling fuel (UO2) corrosion inside a failed container will be dictated by...Read More
On June 15, 2015, we took delivery of our new Hitachi SU3500 Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope combined with an Oxford AZtec X-Max50 SDD energy dispersive detector. The SEM can be run in standard high vacuum mode and provides standard high resolution images and EDS micro analysis. The SU3500 can...Read More
Congratulations to Ms. Thalia Standish, PhD candidate from the Department of Chemistry at Western University, winner of the 2015 Dr. N. Stewart McIntyre Award in Surface Science. Thalia’s research abstract was entitled “Galvanic Corrosion between Copper and Carbon Steel: An Investigation for Nuclear Waste Disposal Containers”. Thalia has used a...Read More
Prof. David Shoesmith, Department of Chemistry and Surface Science Western Director is the winner of this year’s H.H. Uhlig Award of the Corrosion Division of the Electrochemical Society. Dave will receive the award, and a reception in his honour will be held, at the Electrochemical Society fall meeting in Phoenix...Read More
It has been proposed that Canadian nuclear fuel waste be disposed of 500-1000 m deep in either granitic rock or sedimentary clay deposits. Within the multi-barrier system proposed, the fuel wastes would be sealed in a metallic container, which, in a sedimentary clay environment, could be a single thick-walled design...Read More
We are pleased to announce the completed installation of our new Bruker Tensor II FTIR system with Hyperion 2000 microscope! This new system provides all of the same analysis options that SSW has offered to you over the years, as well as some exciting new capabilities. We have purchased a...Read More
