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College students help develop waste measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Takahiko Sugiyama, Kei Sugiura, Youichi Enokida, Ichiro Yamamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 584-587
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T85
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A core-shell type adsorbent was proposed for lithium isotope separation by chromatography. Concentration profiles and its time variation in the column were numerically simulated. It became clear that core-shell type adsorbents with thin porous shell were saturated rapidly relative to fully porous one and established a sharp edge of adsorption band. This is very important feature because lithium isotope separation requires long-distance development of adsorption band. The values of HETP for core-shell adsorbent packed column were estimated by statistical moments of the step response curve. The value of HETP decreased with the thickness of the porous shell. A core-shell type adsorbent is, then, useful for lithium isotope separation.