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Title: Test plan for preparing the Rapid Transuranic Monitoring Laboratory for field deployment

Abstract

This plan describes experimental work that will be performed during fiscal year 1994 to prepare the Rapid Transuranic Monitoring Laboratory (RTML) for routine field use by US Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Restoration and Waste Management programs. The RTML is a mobile, field-deployable laboratory developed at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) that provides a rapid, cost-effective means of characterizing and monitoring radioactive waste remediation sites for low-level radioactive contaminants. Analytical instruments currently installed in the RTML include an extended-range, germanium photon analysis spectrometer with an automatic sample changer; two, large-area, ionization chamber alpha spectrometers; and four alpha continuous air monitors. The RTML was field tested at the INEL during June 1993 in conjunction with the Buried Waste Integrated Demonstration`s remote retrieval demonstration. The major tasks described in this test plan are to (a) evaluate the beta detectors for use in screening soil samples for {sup 90}Sr, (b) upgrade the alpha spectral analysis software programs, and (c) upgrade the photon spectral analysis software programs.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10167744
Report Number(s):
EGG-WTD-11208
ON: DE94015289; TRN: 94:014674
DOE Contract Number:  
AC07-76ID01570
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Apr 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; US DOE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; ALPHA-BEARING WASTES; LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENT; PLANNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; LABORATORY EQUIPMENT; SAFETY; COST; SCHEDULES; 052000; 054000; 400102; WASTE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH AND SAFETY; CHEMICAL AND SPECTRAL PROCEDURES

Citation Formats

McIsaac, C V, Sill, C W, Gehrke, R J, Killian, E W, and Watts, K D. Test plan for preparing the Rapid Transuranic Monitoring Laboratory for field deployment. United States: N. p., 1994. Web. doi:10.2172/10167744.
McIsaac, C V, Sill, C W, Gehrke, R J, Killian, E W, & Watts, K D. Test plan for preparing the Rapid Transuranic Monitoring Laboratory for field deployment. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10167744
McIsaac, C V, Sill, C W, Gehrke, R J, Killian, E W, and Watts, K D. 1994. "Test plan for preparing the Rapid Transuranic Monitoring Laboratory for field deployment". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10167744. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10167744.
@article{osti_10167744,
title = {Test plan for preparing the Rapid Transuranic Monitoring Laboratory for field deployment},
author = {McIsaac, C V and Sill, C W and Gehrke, R J and Killian, E W and Watts, K D},
abstractNote = {This plan describes experimental work that will be performed during fiscal year 1994 to prepare the Rapid Transuranic Monitoring Laboratory (RTML) for routine field use by US Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Restoration and Waste Management programs. The RTML is a mobile, field-deployable laboratory developed at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) that provides a rapid, cost-effective means of characterizing and monitoring radioactive waste remediation sites for low-level radioactive contaminants. Analytical instruments currently installed in the RTML include an extended-range, germanium photon analysis spectrometer with an automatic sample changer; two, large-area, ionization chamber alpha spectrometers; and four alpha continuous air monitors. The RTML was field tested at the INEL during June 1993 in conjunction with the Buried Waste Integrated Demonstration`s remote retrieval demonstration. The major tasks described in this test plan are to (a) evaluate the beta detectors for use in screening soil samples for {sup 90}Sr, (b) upgrade the alpha spectral analysis software programs, and (c) upgrade the photon spectral analysis software programs.},
doi = {10.2172/10167744},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10167744}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1994},
month = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1994}
}