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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
James B. Smathers
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 1 | July 1969 | Pages 84-88
Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28389
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A derivative neutron activation procedure determines the element magnesium using the chelating agent 5, 7-dibromo-8-hydroxyquinoline. By selective solvent extraction, the magnesium chelate is isolated from interfering elements and separated from excess chelating agent using paper chromatography. The amount of magnesium present is then inferred from the bromine activity after neutron irradiation of the isolated chelate. The method improves the sensitivity for magnesium detection by a factor of 5 and removes the time constraint characteristic of conventional activation determination of magnesium.
