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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
Masanori Takahashi, Kenkichi Ishigure, Norihiko Fujita
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 97 | Number 3 | November 1987 | Pages 211-219
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A23503
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A simple mathematical model is presented to depict the filtration mechanism of crud or colloidal particles in the ion exchange resin bed. In this model the filtration process is classified into four stages, corresponding to the increase in the deposited amounts of the particles on the surfaces of the resins during the filtration process. In the first stage, it is assumed that the adhesion of crud particles is mainly controlled by the electrokinetic interaction between the particle and the virgin surfaces of the resins, while in the third stage the crud particles interact with the particles already adsorbed on the resins. The second stage is a transient period between the first and third stages. In the final stage, the clogging effect becomes significant. At the first stage of filtration, the model explains the rapid decrease of filtration efficiency, which is a matter of great concern from the practical point of view. A comparison is made between the model and laboratory experiments, using monodispersed α-Fe2O3 particles as model crud, and it is found that the proposed mechanism of filtration process seems quite reasonable.