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Title: Analysis of Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) brines for target analytes using a charge injection device (CID) equipped ICP-AES Part I: Method development

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OSTI ID:273560
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), operated by the DOE, seeks to address the problem of long term storage of radioactive wastes by burial in a salt dome deep underground. In order to demonstrate the stability of the wastes during storage, a pilot program was established to model the behavior of radioisotopes and RCRA hazardous wastes under storage conditions. This method was developed in conjunction with that project to provide analytical data on the behavior of three tracers in brines found throughout the WIPP salt formation. The ICPAES used in this project was a Thermo Jarrell-Ash IRIS CID Echelle spectrometer and the CID detector provide a powerful tool for emission analyses.

OSTI ID:
273560
Report Number(s):
CONF-960113-; TRN: 96:002920-0020
Resource Relation:
Conference: 9. biennial Winter conference on plasma spectrochemistry, Fort Lauderdale, FL (United States), 8-13 Jan 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 1996 Winter conference on plasma spectrochemistry; PB: 378 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English