We thank Mallants and Chapman for their comments on our recent work and are mostly in agreement. However, while the applicability of the results to different environmental conditions requires more attention, we maintain that this study could be relevant even to repositories in saturated reduced environments. Oxidants other than oxygen might be present in anoxic groundwater repository environments and could also trigger the corrosion mechanism we described.
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Revised: August 25, 2020 |
Published: September 1, 2020
Citation
Guo X., S. Gin, P. Lei, T. Yao, H. Liu, D.K. Schreiber, and D. Ngo, et al. 2020.Reply to: How much does corrosion of nuclear waste matrices matter.Nature Materials 19, no. 9:962–963.PNNL-SA-155663.