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

Technical Report · Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10167744· OSTI ID:10167744

McIsaac, C V; Sill, C W; Gehrke, R J; Killian, E W; Watts, K D

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.

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 10167744
• Report Number(s): EGG-WTD-11208; ON: DE94015289; TRN: 94:014674
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Apr 1994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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