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DOE-EM issues draft RFP for Hanford lab work, awards WIPP monitoring grant
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management issued a draft request for proposals on June 25 for the Hanford Site’s 222-S Laboratory contract. The 222-S Laboratory is the primary on-site laboratory for analysis of highly radioactive samples in support of all projects at the DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington state.
B W Garney
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 604-611
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29814
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To maximise the safety of the future storage of tritiated waste water a zeolite called Analcime is being developed as an alternative to 4A molecular sieve. Synthesis methods have been developed that can produce particles up to 180 microns in diameter. Measurements of the rate of isotopic exchange of Analcime loaded with T2O when immersed in H2O at 25°C produced half-lives (t½) of exchange of between 64 and 172 years. These rates are approximately four orders of magnitude slower than 4A molecular sieve and demonstrate the potential of the material for the long-term immobilisation of tritiated water.