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Hanford begins removing waste from 24th single-shell tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a 1-million-gallon underground storage tank built in the 1950s.
Tank A-106 will be the 24th single-shell tank that crews have cleaned out at Hanford, which is home to 177 underground waste storage tanks: 149 single-shell tanks and 28 double-shell tanks. Ranging from 55,000 gallons to more than 1 million gallons in capacity, the tanks hold around 56 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste resulting from plutonium production at the site.
A. M. Reda
Nuclear Technology | Volume 194 | Number 3 | June 2016 | Pages 400-405
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT15-92
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An investigation room to interrogate packages and baggage at airports, based on a neutron-induced gamma-ray method, was designed using the MCNP5 Monte Carlo radiation transport code. A pulsed neutron generator source of interval time responses 10 μs turned on and 100 μs turned off was used for the investigation. Gamma-ray emissions in the forward, scattering angle of 90 deg, and backward directions were detected in the two cases of neutron generator (turned on/turned off). The detected data revealed that gamma rays in the forward direction have a signal-to-background ratio higher than the other positions. In addition, thermal neutron capture detected in the turned-off interval showed larger numbers of good signal-to-background ratio than that in the turned-on interval. The results show that the detection of gamma rays induced with a pulsed neutron source can be applied as a basic technique in airports to identify smuggled illicit materials.