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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
James H. Patterson, Harry E. Griffin, E. Philip Horwitz, Carol A. A. Bloomquist
Nuclear Technology | Volume 18 | Number 3 | June 1973 | Pages 277-285
Technical Paper | Radioisotope | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31301
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Thin high intensity alpha-particle sources were prepared for the NASA Surveyor Alpha Scattering Experiment. The alpha-active isotope used for this experiment was 242Cm prepared by neutron irradiation of 241Am in a reactor. After irradiation the curium was separated from americium, fission products, and aluminum by liquid-liquid extraction, redox precipitation, and extraction chromatography techniques. The sources were prepared by vacuum sublimation of the curium onto stainless-steel plates, followed by carbon coating from a carbon arc and encapsulation for installation into the Alpha Scattering Instrument.
