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Title: Semi-annual report of the Department of Energy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Quality Assessment Program

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5398525

This report presents the results from the analysis of the 34th set of environmental quality assessment samples (QAP 34) that were received on or before June 10, 1991. This Quality Assessment Program (QAP) is designed to test the quality of the environmental measurements being reported to the Department of Energy by its contractors. Since 1976, real or synthetic environmental samples that have been prepared and thoroughly analyzed at the Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML) have been distributed at first quarterly and then semi-annually to these contractors. Their results, which are returned to EML within 90 days, are compiled with EML's results and are reported back to the participating contractors 30 days later. A summary of the reported results is available to the participants 3 days after the reporting deadline via a modem-telephone connection to the EML computer. The EML value'' listed in the tables to which the contractors' results are compared is the mean of replicate determination for each nuclide. The EML uncertainty is the standard error of the mean. All other uncertainties are as reported by the participants.

Research Organization:
Department of Energy, New York, NY (United States). Environmental Measurements Lab.
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI ID:
5398525
Report Number(s):
EML-539; ON: DE91017294
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English