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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
Toyohiko Yano, Kazunari Sasaki, Tadashi Maruyama, Takayoshi Iseki, Masahiko Ito, Shoji Onose
Nuclear Technology | Volume 93 | Number 3 | March 1991 | Pages 412-415
Technical Note | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34535
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A simple method to measure the change in length of a silicon carbide temperature monitor due to annealing is presented. A differential dilatometer is used to detect the change in length of an irradiated specimen as the temperature of the specimen is raised in steps. The results obtained by this step-heating dilatometry method are in good agreement with measurements obtained with an X-ray diffractometer and a micrometer.
