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Revisions to the hydrogen gas generation computer model

Description: Waste Management Technology has requested SRTC to maintain and extend a previously developed computer model, TRUGAS, which calculates hydrogen gas concentrations within the transuranic (TRU) waste drums. TRUGAS was written by Frank G. Smith using the BASIC language and is described in the report A Computer Model of gas Generation and Transport within TRU Waste Drums (DP- 1754). The computer model has been partially validated by yielding results similar to experimental data collected at SRL and … more
Date: August 31, 1992
Creator: Jerrell, J.W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary remedial action objectives for the Tank 16 groundwater operable unit

Description: Tank 16 is a High Level Radioactive Waste tank in the H-Area Tank Farm on the Savannah River Site that was placed into service in May 1959. A leak was detected in one of the construction weld joints while the tank was being filled. Before jet evacuation of the tank waste was completed, the leak overflowed the annulus pan and an estimated 16 to 700 gallons of waste escaped to the environment (soil and groundwater) over a six hour period contaminating approximately 1,600--70,000 cubic feet of soi… more
Date: October 28, 1992
Creator: Miles, W.C. Jr.
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The concentration of radionuclides and metals in vegetation adjacent to and in the SRL Seepage Basins

Description: In 1991 the trees on the dikes surrounding the SRL Seepage Basins were sampled and analyzed to inventory the contaminants transported from the basins into the vegetation. Tree leaves and wood were collected and analyzed for [sup 90]Sr, [sup 60]Co, [sup 137]Cs, [sup 238]Pu, [sup 239,240]Pu, [sup 242,244]Cm, [sup 241]Am, Ba, Cr, Hg, Mg, Mn, Ni, and Pb. The concentrations of contaminants were influenced by sample type (leaves versus wood), species type (pines versus hardwoods), and location relati… more
Date: December 14, 1992
Creator: Murphy, C. E. Jr.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electron-beam processing of kilogram quantities of iridium for radioisotope thermoelectric generator applications

Description: Iridium alloys are used as fuel-cladding materials in radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Hardware produced at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been used in Voyagers I and 2, Galilee, and Ulysses spacecraft. An integral part of the production of iridium-sheet metal involves electron-beam (EB) processing. These processes include the degassing of powder-pressed compacts followed by multiple meltings in order to purify 500-g buttons of Ir-0.3% W alloy. Starting in 1972 and c… more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Huxford, T. J. & Ohriner, E. K.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary remedial action objectives for the Tank 16 groundwater operable unit

Description: Tank 16 is a High Level Radioactive Waste tank in the H-Area Tank Farm on the Savannah River Site that was placed into service in May 1959. A leak was detected in one of the construction weld joints while the tank was being filled. Before jet evacuation of the tank waste was completed, the leak overflowed the annulus pan and an estimated 16 to 700 gallons of waste escaped to the environment (soil and groundwater) over a six hour period contaminating approximately 1,600--70,000 cubic feet of soi… more
Date: October 28, 1992
Creator: Miles, W. C. Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Revisions to the hydrogen gas generation computer model

Description: Waste Management Technology has requested SRTC to maintain and extend a previously developed computer model, TRUGAS, which calculates hydrogen gas concentrations within the transuranic (TRU) waste drums. TRUGAS was written by Frank G. Smith using the BASIC language and is described in the report A Computer Model of gas Generation and Transport within TRU Waste Drums (DP- 1754). The computer model has been partially validated by yielding results similar to experimental data collected at SRL and … more
Date: August 31, 1992
Creator: Jerrell, J. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOE mixed wastes: What are they and where can thermal technologies be applied?

Description: The Mixed Waste Treatment Project (MWTP) has collected and analyzed mixed low-level waste data to assist in developing treatment capability for the US Department of Energy is (DOE) wastes. Initial data on the characteristics of mixed waste was obtained from the Waste Management Information System (WMIS) data base, and has been updated based on visits to DOE sites where most of the wastes are generated and stored. The streams of interest to the MWTP have a current inventory of about 70,000 m{sup… more
Date: May 1, 1992
Creator: Ross, W. A.; Borduin, L. C. & Musgrave, B. C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary laboratory study of plutonium-238 dissolution from Mound soil by means of the ACT*DE*CON{sup SM} process

Description: The treatment of contaminated soil presents a significant technical problem. Soil-washing and chemical-extraction methods have proven to be effective for specific applications, but a process with more comprehensive treatment properties that is both cost-effective and environmentally propitious is needed. Bradtec, Inc., has developed a process, the ACT*DE*CON{sup SM} process, that has been tested on soil contaminated with plutonium. The process effectively extracted Pu-238 after three washes, re… more
Date: April 1, 1992
Creator: Brown, K. A.; Heinrich, R. R.; Johnson, D. O. & Edgar, D. E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Savannah River Site delayed neutron instruments for safeguards measurements. Revision 1

Description: The Savannah River Site (SRS) includes a variety of nuclear production facilities that, since 1953, have processed special nuclear materials (SNM) including highly-enriched uranium (>90% {sup 235}U), recycled enriched uranium ({approximately}50% {sup 235}U + 40% {sup 236}U), low burnup plutonium (> 90% {sup 239}Pu + < 6% {sup 240}Pu ) and several other nuclear materials such as heat source plutonium ({sup 238}Pu). DOE Orders, primarily 5633.3, require all nuclear materials to be safeguarded thr… more
Date: December 31, 1992
Creator: Studley, R. V.
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Hanford radiological protection support services annual report for 1991

Description: Various Hanford sitewide radiation protection services provided by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory for the US Department of Energy, Richland Field Office and Hanford contractors are described In this annual report for calendar year 1991. These activities include internal dosimetry measurements and evaluations, in vivo measurements, external dosimetry measurements and evaluations, instrument calibration and evaluation, radiation source calibration, and radiological records keeping. For each of … more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Lyon, M.; Bihl, D. E.; Fix, J. J.; Piper, R. K.; Froelich, T. J.; Leonwich, J. A. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of a plutonium solution-assay instrument with isotopic capability

Description: A new generation of solution-assay instrument has been developed to satisfy all the assay requirements of an aqueous plutonium-recovery operation. The assay is based on a transmission-corrected passive assay technique. We have demonstrated that the system can cover a concentration range of 0.5--300 g/{ell} with simultaneous isotopic determination. The system can be used to assay input and eluate streams of the recovery operation. The system can be modified to measure low-concentration effluent … more
Date: September 1, 1992
Creator: Hsue, S. T. & Marks, T.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radionuclide concentrations in white sturgeon from the Columbia River

Description: Although radioactive releases from the US Department of Energy`s Hanford Site have been monitored in the environment since the reactors began operating in 1945, recent information regarding historical releases of radionuclides has led to renewed interest in estimating human exposure to radionuclides at Hanford. Knowledge of the fate of radionuclides in some fish species may be important because of the potential for food-chain transfer to humans. White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) were sel… more
Date: September 1, 1992
Creator: Dauble, D. D.; Price, K. R. & Poston, T. M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radionuclide concentrations in white sturgeon from the Columbia River

Description: Although radioactive releases from the US Department of Energy's Hanford Site have been monitored in the environment since the reactors began operating in 1945, recent information regarding historical releases of radionuclides has led to renewed interest in estimating human exposure to radionuclides at Hanford. Knowledge of the fate of radionuclides in some fish species may be important because of the potential for food-chain transfer to humans. White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) were sel… more
Date: September 1, 1992
Creator: Dauble, D. D.; Price, K. R. & Poston, T. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford radiological protection support services annual report for 1991

Description: Various Hanford sitewide radiation protection services provided by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory for the US Department of Energy, Richland Field Office and Hanford contractors are described In this annual report for calendar year 1991. These activities include internal dosimetry measurements and evaluations, in vivo measurements, external dosimetry measurements and evaluations, instrument calibration and evaluation, radiation source calibration, and radiological records keeping. For each of … more
Date: July 1, 1992
Creator: Lyon, M.; Bihl, D. E.; Fix, J. J.; Piper, R. K.; Froelich, T. J.; Leonwich, J. A. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of a plutonium solution-assay instrument with isotopic capability

Description: A new generation of solution-assay instrument has been developed to satisfy all the assay requirements of an aqueous plutonium-recovery operation. The assay is based on a transmission-corrected passive assay technique. We have demonstrated that the system can cover a concentration range of 0.5--300 g/{ell} with simultaneous isotopic determination. The system can be used to assay input and eluate streams of the recovery operation. The system can be modified to measure low-concentration effluent … more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Hsue, S. T. & Marks, T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The concentration of radionuclides and metals in vegetation adjacent to and in the SRL Seepage Basins

Description: In 1991 the trees on the dikes surrounding the SRL Seepage Basins were sampled and analyzed to inventory the contaminants transported from the basins into the vegetation. Tree leaves and wood were collected and analyzed for {sup 90}Sr, {sup 60}Co, {sup 137}Cs, {sup 238}Pu, {sup 239,240}Pu, {sup 242,244}Cm, {sup 241}Am, Ba, Cr, Hg, Mg, Mn, Ni, and Pb. The concentrations of contaminants were influenced by sample type (leaves versus wood), species type (pines versus hardwoods), and location relati… more
Date: December 14, 1992
Creator: Murphy, C. E. Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radiolytic hydrogen production from process vessels in HB line - production rates compared to evolution rates and discussion of LASL reviews

Description: Hydrogen production from radiolysis of aqueous solutions can create a safety hazard since hydrogen is flammable. At times this production can be significant, especially in HB line where nitric acid solutions containing high concentrations of Pu-238, an intense alpha emitter, are processed. The hydrogen production rates from these solutions are necessary for safety analyses of these process systems. The methods and conclusions of hydrogen production rate tests are provided in this report.
Date: November 12, 1992
Creator: Bibler, N. E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report of the Oversight Assessment of the Operational Readiness Evaluation of the Cassini Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Description: [sup 238]Pu oxide pellets are to be fabricated and encapsulated for radioisotope thermoelectric generators for the NASA Cassini mission to Saturn. The oversight assessment concluded that the Defense Programs' Operational Readiness Evaluation was technically adequate and thorough in worker safety areas and that the overall conclusions reached by the DP ORE team, insofar as worker safety is concerned, are valid. It is believed that the Cassini Project production run can begin safely, when the fin… more
Date: November 1, 1992
Creator: Krasopoulos, A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Method of calculation of heat generation rates for DWPF glass

Description: The Waste Acceptance Preliminary Specifications (WAPS) require estimates of the heat generation rate of DWPF waste glasses. Estimates of the heat generation rates of projected glass compositions are to be reported in the Waste Form Qualification Report. Similar estimates for actual production glasses are to be reported in the Production Records. In this report, a method of calculating the heat generation rate from the radionuclide inventory is provided. Application of the method to the DWPF Des… more
Date: March 17, 1992
Creator: Plodinec, M.J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electron-beam processing of kilogram quantities of iridium for radioisotope thermoelectric generator applications

Description: Iridium alloys are used as fuel-cladding materials in radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Hardware produced at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been used in Voyagers I and 2, Galilee, and Ulysses spacecraft. An integral part of the production of iridium-sheet metal involves electron-beam (EB) processing. These processes include the degassing of powder-pressed compacts followed by multiple meltings in order to purify 500-g buttons of Ir-0.3% W alloy. Starting in 1972 and c… more
Date: December 31, 1992
Creator: Huxford, T. J. & Ohriner, E. K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOE mixed wastes: What are they and where can thermal technologies be applied

Description: The Mixed Waste Treatment Project (MWTP) has collected and analyzed mixed low-level waste data to assist in developing treatment capability for the US Department of Energy is (DOE) wastes. Initial data on the characteristics of mixed waste was obtained from the Waste Management Information System (WMIS) data base, and has been updated based on visits to DOE sites where most of the wastes are generated and stored. The streams of interest to the MWTP have a current inventory of about 70,000 m[sup… more
Date: May 1, 1992
Creator: Ross, W.A. (Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)); Borduin, L.C. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)) & Musgrave, B.C. (Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States))
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary laboratory study of plutonium-238 dissolution from Mound soil by means of the ACT*DE*CON sup SM process

Description: The treatment of contaminated soil presents a significant technical problem. Soil-washing and chemical-extraction methods have proven to be effective for specific applications, but a process with more comprehensive treatment properties that is both cost-effective and environmentally propitious is needed. Bradtec, Inc., has developed a process, the ACT*DE*CON{sup SM} process, that has been tested on soil contaminated with plutonium. The process effectively extracted Pu-238 after three washes, re… more
Date: April 1, 1992
Creator: Brown, K. A.; Heinrich, R. R.; Johnson, D. O. & Edgar, D. E. (Argonne National Lab., IL (United States))
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Method of calculation of heat generation rates for DWPF glass. Revision 1

Description: The Waste Acceptance Preliminary Specifications (WAPS) require estimates of the heat generation rate of DWPF waste glasses. Estimates of the heat generation rates of projected glass compositions are to be reported in the Waste Form Qualification Report. Similar estimates for actual production glasses are to be reported in the Production Records. In this report, a method of calculating the heat generation rate from the radionuclide inventory is provided. Application of the method to the DWPF Des… more
Date: March 17, 1992
Creator: Plodinec, M. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Calorimetry exchange program quarterly data report, third quarter 1992

Description: The goals of the Calorimetry Sample Exchange Program are: discuss measurement differences, review and improve analytical measurements and methods, discuss new measurement capabilities, provide data to DOE on measurement capabilities to evaluate shipper-receiver differences, provide characterized or standard materials as necessary for exchange participants, and provide a measurement control program for plutonium analysis. A sample of PuO{sub 2} powder is available at each participating site for … more
Date: December 31, 1992
Creator: Barnett, T.M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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