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GAO report describes cleanup progress at Moab Mill Site
A new report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office states that the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) has disposed of more than 16 million tons of radioactive and hazardous waste from the Moab Mill Site. While cleanup continues at the Cold War–era uranium ore processing site in southeastern Utah, a plan for the next phase of groundwater remediation is still needed, according to the GAO.
J. N. Anno
Nuclear Technology | Volume 29 | Number 1 | April 1976 | Pages 124-126
Technical Paper | Radiation | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A16297
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Specimens of polymethylmethacrylate were welded by the neutron capture process using the 10B isotope. In general, very weak bonds were obtained, of the order of a 20-psi bond strength for naturally enriched boron. Bond strength increased with thermal-neutron fluence to 1015 n/cm2. At higher fluences the strengths decreased and the specimens became very brittle, presumably from radiation damage by the fast neutrons and gamma rays present in the radiation field of the reactor. Comparison of experiment with theory suggests that only a small fraction of the interface area is being welded.