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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
A. Perevezentsev, K. Watanabe, M. Matsuyama, Y. Torikai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 706-710
Decontamination and Waste | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST41-706
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Various techniques, such as wiping, gas-purge at elevated temperatures, heating by flame simultaneously with air-purge, have been tested for decontamination of stainless steel samples exposed to tritium-containing hydrogen at room and elevated temperatures. Effectiveness of the decontamination techniques is compared depending on the history of the sample loading with tritium, treatment after the loading, the sample thickness, etc.