Application of safeguards technology in DOE's environmental restoration program

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:7067589

Eccleston, G W; Baker, M P; Hansen, W R; Lucas, M C; Markin, J T; Phillips, J R

During the last two decades, the Department of Energy's Office of Safeguards and Security (DOE/OSS) has supported the research and development of safeguards systems analysis methodologies and nondestructive assay (NDS) technology for characterizing, monitoring, and accounting nuclear materials. This paper discusses methodologies and NDA instrumentation developed by the DOE/OSS program that could be applied in the Environmental Restoration Program. NDA instrumentation could be used for field measurements during site characterization and to monitor nuclear materials, heavy metals, and other hazardous materials during site remediation. Systems methodologies can minimize the expenditure of resources and help specify appropriate combinations of NDA instrumentation and chemical analyses to characterize a variety of materials quickly and reduce personnel exposure in hazardous environments. A training program is available to teach fundamental and advanced principles and approaches to characterize and quantify nuclear materials properly and to organize and analyze measurement information for decision making. The ability to characterize the overall volume and distribution of materials at a waste site is difficult because of the inhomogeneous distribution of materials, the requirement for extreme sensitivity, and the lack of resources to collect and chemically analyze a sufficient number of samples. Using a systems study approach based on statistical sampling, the resources necessary to characterize a site can be enhanced by appropriately combining in situ and field NDA measurements with laboratory analyses. 35 refs., 1 figs., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 7067589
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-90-2410; CONF-9007106-42; ON: DE90014908; TRN: 90-028749
• Resource Relation: Conference: Institute of nuclear materials management conference, Los Angeles, CA (USA), 15-18 Jul 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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NUCLEAR FACILITIES
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
FIELD TESTS
MONITORING
PORTABLE EQUIPMENT
REMEDIAL ACTION
SAFEGUARDS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
X-RAY FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
ELEMENTS
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MATERIALS
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