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Nuclear Installations Safety
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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The D&D of SM-1A
With the recent mobilization at the site of the former SM-1A nuclear power plant at Fort Greely, Alaska, the Radiological Health Physics Regional Center of Expertise, located at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Baltimore District, began its work toward the decommissioning and dismantlement of its third nuclear power plant, this time located just 175 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
Technical Session|Detection and Analysis
Wednesday, September 11, 2024|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Tsuyoshi Kohlgruber
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Sensitized 248Cm Circularly Polarized Luminescence Reveals Unique Spectroscopic Signatures
11:00–11:30AM EDT
Appie Peterson (Berkeley Lab), Jospeh A. Adewuyi (Univ. Connecticut), Joshua J. Woods (Berkeley Lab), Rebecca J. Abergel (Berkeley Lab), Gael Ung (Univ. Connecticut)
Paper
Attachment — Cm-248 CPL Presentation
The Curious Case of Pu+: An Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS/MS) Investigation of the Energy Dependence of Pu+ Reactions with Small Molecules
11:30–11:50AM EDT
Richard M. Cox (PNNL), Kali M. Melby (PNNL), Amanda D. French (PNNL), Michael J. Rodriguez (PNNL), Micah P. Prange (PNNL), Niranjan Govind (PNNL)
Attachment
Statistical Lessons for Plutonium Signature Identification and Characterization
11:50AM–12:10PM EDT
Daniel Ries (Sandia), Adah Zhang (Sandia), Madeline Stricklin (LANL), J. Derek Tucker (Sandia)
CE-ICP-MS Investigation of the Gluconate Complexation of Plutonium in Different Oxidation States and of Other Actinides in the Presence of Calcium
12:10–12:30PM EDT
Janik Lohmann (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Tamara Kutyma (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Alexander Wiebe (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Tobias Reich (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz)
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