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Analysis of Coordination Polyhedra Symmetry in Pyrochlore and Zirconolite Structures

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Zirconolite and pyrochlore are considered as promising host phases for high level waste (HLW). However, correct information on substitution mechanisms, forms of dopants incorporation in their structures and distortions in coordination polyhedra is presently unavailable. To clarify these points we use the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). Pyrochlore and three of zirconolite polytypes: zirconolite-2M, zirconolite-3T, and zirconolite-30 are considered. Pyrochlore is the “parent” structure for zirconolite since any zirconolite variety is produced by means of distortion of the initial pyrochlore structure. Space groups of pyrochlore and basic polymorphous zirconolite varieties found from XRD and TEM data, as well as interatomic distances and angles, were taken from reference data. This allows the determination of the most probable sites for impurities, substitution mechanisms, and local symmetry of coordination polyhedra (initial). Ions chosen for EPR were Gd (III) as an analog of trivalent rare earth and actinide elements which are also occurred in HLW and Fe (III) as a typical corrosion product which occurs in all HLW. For Gd (III) a strong ligand field approximation is suggested, theoretical computation using perturbation theory in this approximation has been carried out. All the non-diagonal members plus magnetic field were chosen as perturbation and formulae for transition frequencies, estimations of fine structure and g-factors parameters in the given approximation have been obtained.

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Troole, A.Y., Stefanovsky, S.V. Analysis of Coordination Polyhedra Symmetry in Pyrochlore and Zirconolite Structures. MRS Online Proceedings Library 556, 35 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-556-35

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