Statistical sampling plan for the TRU waste assay facility
Due to limited space, there is a need to dispose appropriately of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory transuranic waste which is presently stored below ground in 55-gal (208-l) drums within weather-resistant structures. Waste containing less than 100 nCi/g transuranics can be removed from the present storage and be buried, while waste containing greater than 100 nCi/g transuranics must continue to be retrievably stored. To make the necessary measurements needed to determine the drums that can be buried, a transuranic Neutron Interrogation Assay System (NIAS) has been developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and can make the needed measurements much faster than previous techniques which involved ..gamma..-ray spectroscopy. The previous techniques are reliable but time consuming. Therefore, a validation study has been planned to determine the ability of the NIAS to make adequate measurements. The validation of the NIAS will be based on a paired comparison of a sample of measurements made by the previous techniques and the NIAS. The purpose of this report is to describe the proposed sampling plan and the statistical analyses needed to validate the NIAS. 5 references, 4 figures, 5 tables.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh (USA). Dept. of Statistics
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 5879951
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/CSD/TM-203; ON: DE83016962
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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