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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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Discovering, Making, and Testing New Materials: SRNL’s Center For Hierarchical Waste Form Materials
Savannah River National Laboratory researchers are building on the laboratory’s legacy of using cutting-edge science to effectively immobilize nuclear waste in innovative ways. As part of the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, SRNL is leveraging its depth of experience in radiological waste management to explore new frontiers in the industry.
Shigeru Kitabatake et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1280-1283
Environmental and Organically Bound Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12664
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Aomori Prefectural Government (Aomori Pref.) and Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL) have been carrying out tritium monitoring of many kinds of environmental samples around the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (RRP) as part of environmental radiation monitoring. Similarly, Aomori Pref. and Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. have been carrying out monitoring around the Higashidori Nuclear Power Station. Results which exceeded the background levels of environmental tritium were observed in water vapor, some seawater samples and some fish samples (measured as tissue free-water tritium(TFWT)) since the final commissioning test using actual spent nuclear fuels (Active Test) was started at the RRP on March 31 2006. Therefore, we examined causes for these results by considering the operational status of the RRP and meteorological and hydrographic conditions. The committed effective dose estimated by using the results for the effect of the RRP was far below the annual dose limit for the public (1 mSv).
