Environmental sampling
Environmental Sampling (ES) is a technology option that can have application in transparency in nuclear nonproliferation. The basic process is to take a sample from the environment, e.g., soil, water, vegetation, or dust and debris from a surface, and through very careful sample preparation and analysis, determine the types, elemental concentration, and isotopic composition of actinides in the sample. The sample is prepared and the analysis performed in a clean chemistry laboratory (CCL). This ES capability is part of the IAEA Strengthened Safeguards System. Such a Laboratory is planned to be built by JAERI at Tokai and will give Japan an intrinsic ES capability. This paper presents options for the use of ES as a transparency measure for nuclear nonproliferation.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 303949
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-98-2199; CONF-9806151-; ON: DE99000771; TRN: 99:003078
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 3. DOE-PNC workshop on transparency in nuclear nonproliferation, Tokyo (Japan), 1-5 Jun 1998; Other Information: PBD: [1998]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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