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UNC, GE agree to clean up former New Mexico uranium mine
The United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) and General Electric Company will undertake a nearly $63 million, decade-long cleanup project at the former Northeast Church Rock Mine in northwestern New Mexico under a consent decree with the United States, the Navajo Nation, and the state of New Mexico.
Shigeo Yoshida, Isao Murala, Akito Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 432-436
Biology | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22626
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Handling of a large amount of tritium and tritiated contaminants had been carried out many times repeatedly in the OKTAVIAN facility which is an accelerator of Cockcroft Walton type to produce 14 MeV fast neutrons by D-T reaction. To estimate the dose due to internal exposure following intake of tritium, the distribution of tritium concentration has been measured with the bioassay method and the liquid scintillation counting method by using bioassay samples in man such as urine, exhaled water and so on. On the basis of their many tritium concentration data accumulated in the OKTAVIAN facility until now, a new tritium metabolic model has been developed by modifying a conventional three-compartment model known as the most famous model. The present model was verified using measured data, and compared with other models proposed previously.