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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Darryl D. Jackson, James E. Rein, Glenn R. Waterbury
Nuclear Technology | Volume 23 | Number 2 | August 1974 | Pages 132-141
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safeguards (Presented at November 1973 Meeting) / Safeguard | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31446
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The chemical measurement of plutonium in nuclear fuel cycle materials ranges from highly precise titrimetric methods applied to homogeneous products to less precise methods applied to heterogeneous scrap materials. A system under development for analyzing scrap materials involves a combination of high-temperature pressurized acid-dissolution attack, a gamma assay for low levels of plutonium in any resulting residue, and an automated spectrophotometer for measuring plutonium in the liquid fraction. A review of chemical standards, that are essential for calibrating methods to maintain unbiased plutonium-assay measurements, indicates that a greater variety is needed for application to nuclear safeguards materials.