A detailed technical reference connecting inorganic chemistry to nuclear fuel cycles, reactor materials, coolant chemistry, and radwaste.

1. Actinide Chemistry

Oxidation states, actinyl ions, fuel pellet chemistry, fluorite lattices, burnup effects, defect formation.

2. Corrosion & Coolant Chemistry

Zirconium alloys, hydrogen pickup, lithium and boron chemistry, crud formation, SCC mechanisms.

3. Fission Product Chemistry

Noble gases, lanthanides, noble metals, volatile species such as iodine and cesium.

4. Radwaste Chemistry

Glass vitrification, ceramic immobilization, sorption, complexation, redox control.