Method and means of monitoring the effluent from nuclear facilities

Patent · 31 December 1975

OSTI ID:862649

Lattin, Kenneth R ^[1]; Erickson, Gerald L ^[1]

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1. Richland, WA

Radioactive iodine is detected in the effluent cooling gas from a nuclear reactor or nuclear facility by passing the effluent gas through a continuously moving adsorbent filter material which is then purged of noble gases and conveyed continuously to a detector of radioactivity. The purging operation has little or no effect upon the concentration of radioactive iodine which is adsorbed on the filter material.

• Research Organization: United Nuclear Industries, Inc., Richland, Wash. (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AT(45-1)-1857
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 3982129
• OSTI ID: 862649
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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