The crystal-melt equilibria in complex fifteen component melts are modeled based on quasicrystalline concepts. This quasicrystalline liquidus model has been used to prevent unwanted crystallization in the world's largest high level waste (HLW) melter for the past three years while allowing >10 wt% higher waste loadings to be processed.

Citation: Jantzen, C.M., Brown, K.G. United States. Savannah River National Laboratory. Quasicrystalline Approach to Predicting the Spinel-Nepheline Liquidus: Application to Nuclear Waste Glass Processing. Washington, D.C.: Department of Energy, 1999.

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