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DOE nuclear cleanup costs, schedule delays continue to rise, GAO says
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management faces significant cost increases, schedule delays, and data management issues in completing nuclear waste cleanup projects, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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.