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DOE saves $1.7M transferring robotics from Portsmouth to Oak Ridge
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said it has transferred four robotic demolition machines from the department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio to Oak Ridge, Tenn., saving the office more than $1.7 million by avoiding the purchase of new equipment.
Shekhar Kumar, S. B. Koganti
Nuclear Technology | Volume 126 | Number 2 | May 1999 | Pages 237-239
Technical Note | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2971
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Tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) is an excellent industrial solvent for metal extraction in the nuclear chemical industry. It is also being used as a major constituent of hydraulic fluids in the aircraft industry and other industrial applications. Risk assessment studies demand limiting of airborne concentration of TBP during normal as well as accidental exposure to humans, as the toxicity index for TBP is quite high. Published data on TBP vapor pressure has been analyzed, and an empirical equation is reported for the temperature range of 273.15 to 562.15 K. The performance of the reported equation is compared with the correlations available in the literature.