Congratulations to Prof. Dave Shoesmith, SSW’s Director, on being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Fellows are elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement. Election to the academies of the Royal Society of Canada is the highest honour a scholar can...Read More
Congratulations to Mr. Joseph Turnbull, PhD candidate from the Department of Chemistry at Western University, winner of the 2016 Dr. N. Stewart McIntyre Award in Surface Science. Joseph’s research abstract was entitled “Corrosion of Copper Nuclear Waste Containers in Aqueous HNO3 Solutions”. Joseph has used a variety of surface analysis...Read More
This year marks Surface Science Western’s 35th Anniversary – yes we’ve been doing surface analysis and materials characterization since 1981! Please save the date of Friday, November 4th in the afternoon and early evening to come to London and celebrate this milestone with us. Invitations to follow by email in...Read More
Recent research is looking to determine the effects of radiolytically produced HNO3 droplets on the corrosion of copper coatings on high level nuclear waste containers. The extent and distribution of corrosion damage has been analyzed to help determine a penetration rate and the reaction rate constants required to model the...Read More
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
