Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1097076

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP1097076

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Unique Chemistry from Radioactive Decay in the Solid-State. Australia is an important member of the international nuclear fuel cycle. It holds one-third of the world's uranium reserves and is a major player in the development of technology for immobilizing radioactive waste. We will use computer simulation to answer a very important question which is extremely difficult to study experimentally: How does radioactive decay inside a solid change the chemistry of the material over time? Not only will our study improve nuclear waste storage, it will also reveal how in-situ chemical change creates new kinds of solids which cannot be made by conventional means. These solids can exhibit unusual and useful behaviour; this project provides the first investigation of this unexplored technological niche.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-2010

End Date: 11-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $305,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Theory Of Materials | Theoretical And Computational Chemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Condensed Matter Physics—Structural Properties | Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Chemical sciences | Nuclear | Physical sciences |

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