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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.
T. K. Li
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 3 | December 1981 | Pages 674-682
Technical Paper | Analyse | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32812
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An automated solution assay instrument (SAI) based on transmission-corrected gamma-ray measurements has been developed and installed in the Plutonium Processing Facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The instrument was designed for rapid, nondestructive assay of plutonium process solutions over a wide range of concentrations (0.05 to 500 g Pu/i, with 10−4 to 5 g Am/ℓ) and for routine operation by process technicians who lack instrumentation experience. For a 25-ml sample, the precision is <0.8% for concentrations >30 g Pu/ℓ within a 1000-s assay and <1.0% for concentrations >4 g Pu/ℓ within a 2000-s assay. The results of test and evaluation demonstrate that the SAI is a reliable and accurate instrument for assaying plutonium process solutions.