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2024: The Year in Nuclear—July through September
Another calendar year has passed. Before heading too far into 2025, let’s look back at what happened in 2024 in the nuclear community. In today's post, compiled from Nuclear News and Nuclear Newswire are what we feel are the top nuclear news stories from July through September 2024.
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Alan W. Marley, Douglas W. Akers, Charles V. McIsaac
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 4 | December 1989 | Pages 845-856
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Decontamination and Waste Management / Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27678
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Samples from Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) ranging from auxiliary building atmosphere to core debris were collected and analyzed using a variety of techniques. Many of the samples had to be handled remotely, and standard laboratory analytical techniques were modified to accommodate the extremely high radiation fields. The TMI-2 samples presented unique problems with sampling and the laboratory analysis of numerous sample types.