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3D-printed tool at SRS makes quicker work of tank waste sampling
A 3D-printed tool has been developed at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina that can eliminate months from the job of radioactive tank waste sampling.
Richard V. Babcock, Stanley L. Ruby
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 5 | November 1960 | Pages 410-415
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25822
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An instrument has been developed which can nondestructively determine the U235 and boron content of highly enriched, unirradiated fuel assemblies in five to fifteen minutes per element. Two nuclear measurement methods are used: counting of the natural radioactivity of U235 and neutron attenuation measurements. For MTR and ETR fuel elements, the instrument appears to be accurate to 0.3% and 4.0% in terms of the respective U235 and boron contents.
