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EPA issues final rule regulating “forever chemicals”
The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will issue a rule aimed at limiting public exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The final rule will designate two widely used PFAS chemicals, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as Superfund.
According to the EPA, both PFOA and PFOS meet the statutory criteria for designation as hazardous substances.
Akihiro Ishimi, Kozo Katsuyama, Hirofumi Nakamura, Takeo Asaga, Hirotaka Furuya
Nuclear Technology | Volume 189 | Number 3 | March 2015 | Pages 312-317
Technical Paper | Materials for Nuclear Systems | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-34
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) technique was developed that made it possible to obtain fine X-ray CT images of an irradiated fuel assembly. In addition, the density distributions in an irradiated mixed oxide fuel pellet could be continually measured using the relationship between the densities and the CT values. These results were compared to the results obtained by the metallographic method. It was found that the relative change of radial density distributions in the irradiated fuel pellet can be measured more accurately by the X-ray CT technique than by metallographic examination.