THE DETERMINATION OF DISSOLVED ARGON IN WATER

Technical Report · Tue Nov 19 04:00:00 EST 1957

OSTI ID:4301273

Shirley, E L; Pachucki, C F; Lolos, L K

Dissolved argon in the primary coolant water of a nuclear reactor presents a problem of accessibility to the reactor at shutdown. Because of the production or radioactive Ar/sup 41/ from the naturally occurring argon, it is desirable to limit the concentration of argon in the makeup water by some means of deaeration. Two methods for the analysis of dissolved argon at low concentrations are described. Both methods depend upon a mechanical separation of the dissolved gas from the water and an analysis of the separated gas by a General Electric mass spectrometer. Data are shown for recoveries from standard samples which demonstrate a standard deviation of plus or minus 0.02 ppm. (auth)

• Research Organization: Knolls Atomic Power Lab., Schenectady, N.Y.
• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-52
• NSA Number: NSA-12-012252
• OSTI ID: 4301273
• Report Number(s): KAPL-1890
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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MASS SPECTROMETERS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
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QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
QUANTITY RATIO
REACTIVITY
REACTORS
RECOVERY
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLUBILITY
STANDARDS
STATISTICS
WATER