THE DETERMINATION OF DISSOLVED ARGON IN WATER

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1957

OSTI ID:4312119

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 shut down. Due to the production of radioactive Ar/sub 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 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-12-013739
• OSTI ID: 4312119
• Report Number(s): AECU-3795; M-6443
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ACTIVATION
ARGON
ARGON 41
CHEMISTRY
CONCENTRATION
ERRORS
MASS SPECTROMETERS
MECHANICS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
QUANTITY RATIO
REACTORS
RECOVERY
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SHUTDOWN
SOLUTIONS
STANDARDS
TRACE AMOUNTS
WATER
WATER COOLANT