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IAEA: Gunfire, drone attack at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
The International Atomic Energy Agency team at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) reported hearing gunfire near the site this morning while a drone hit the plant’s training center.
In a news release today, IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi said this is the third drone to target the training center, located just outside the site perimeter, so far this year. He called for an immediate end to drones being flown over or near nuclear facilities.
G. U. Greger, K. Schügerl
Nuclear Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 1980 | Pages 208-212
Technical Paper | Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32424
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A new method has been developed that allows measurement of the concentration of solutes with polar groups in the bulk of suitable organic solvent phases as well as at the interface of this phase with an aqueous phase. The measuring method is based on the production of alpha particles and gamma rays by means of (n,α) and (n,γ) reactions in the liquid phase, in which boron or lithium compounds are solved. The alpha particles and gamma rays are detected by means of liquid scintillation. The separation of the pulses is carried out by means of pulse-shape analysis. This method can also be applied to the estimation of the interfacial area of liquid-liquid systems, since the intensity of the light emission of the scintillation solution is proportional to the interfacial area.