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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
R L Otlet, A J Walker, C J Caldwell-Nichols
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 550-555
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29804
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Reliable measurement of Tritium for regulatory and radiological protection purposes requires the design of samplers which are simple to operate and easy to maintain and check during operation. Where measurements of Tritium in only the oxide form suffice, passive (diffusion tube type) samplers are very effective, requiring no moving parts or power supplies for their operation. Where separate measurement of Tritium in the oxide (HTO) and elemental form (HT) is required dynamic samplers, involving pumped gas systems, are generally necessary. Designs of both type of sampler, commissioned by JET, are described and the results of one year's operation, for environmental applications, are presented and discussed.