Research Associate, Chemist (2001)
Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Subject: Wasting of nuclear tanks.
Supported by: Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy (Document No. NDRL-4344 from the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory).
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The oxidation of simple amino acids by the •OH radical has turned out to be quite complicated. This finding is of significance to questions of how aminopolycarboxylic acids degrade (organic aging) in nuclear waste storage tanks. The precise chemical mechanisms of amino acid oxidation are also of interest to understanding the fate of proteins under oxidative stress in biological systems.