RADIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Technical Report · Sat Oct 31 04:00:00 EST 1964

OSTI ID:4150134

Data are presented from preliminary measurements of radioisotope yields from the thermal neutron fission of Pu/sup 239/ and Pu/sup 241/ ; studies on the effects of chemical additives and coating materials on the reduction of radionuclides in reactor effluent water; the determination of Th/sup 232/ in urine by activation analysis; a bioassay procedure for Pm/sup 147/; the measurement of Cl/sup 38/ and W/sup 187/ in reactor effluent water; the separation of As/sup 76/ from reactor effluent water; the determination of P/sup 32/ in river sediments; revision of a fluorescein analysis technique for use in atmospheric diffusion studies using ZnS as a tracer; liquid scintillation counting of tritium; estimations of fast neutron doses from the Hanford criticality accident; and the development of methods for sampling fallout from air at ground level and from aircraft. Data are included on the levels of radionuclides from fallout and other sources in air, stack gases, and Columbia River water and sediments in the Hanford area during 1961 and 1962. High sensitivity analytical methods were developed for the quantitative measurement of U/sup 238/, U/sup 234/, Th/sup 230/, Ra/sup 226/, Po/sup 218/, and Po/sup 210/, in biologica l samples. Results are included from studies of the radiation chemistry of the dyes erioglaucine and tropeoline; the effects of temperature on radical-capturing reactions in irradiated aqueous solutions; radical-capturing reactions of galactose and agarose in irradiated solutions; the kinetics of radioinduced hemolysis of human red blood cells in aqueous suspensions; electrophoresis patterns of sera from irradiated and normal persons; and the low noise modification of an electron spin resonance spectrometer. (C.H.)

• Research Organization: General Electric Co. Hanford Atomic Products Operation, Richland, Wash.
• NSA Number: NSA-18-001487
• OSTI ID: 4150134
• Report Number(s): HW-77609(Sect.3)
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

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