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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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.
Qingbo Wang, Jingyuan Qu, Wenkai Zhu, Baichang Zhou, Jinxing Cheng
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 168 | Number 3 | July 2011 | Pages 287-292
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE10-65
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The radon adsorption ability of four samples of coconut shell-based activated carbons has been investigated by measuring the dynamic adsorption coefficient (DAC) of each activated carbon in a radon room. The findings obtained have shown that DACs are dramatically different even when the surface areas are near. Nitrogen adsorption and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis are used to study the microstructure of the four samples. The results have shown that micropores with diameters between 0.5 and 0.8 nm play the most important role in radon adsorption on activated carbons. Oxygen on the pore surface influences radon adsorption because of the polarity molecular adsorption on oxygen groups.