Published 1997 | Version v1
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Experience operating LANL's passive/active neutron (PAN) assay system

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Description

We present a summary of our operating experience with LANL's mobile PAN assay system, which was acquired from the Carlsbad Area Office in 1994, refurbished, calibrated, and fielded for the first time on LANL's TRU waste in the winter of 1996. It is functionally identical to other PAN systems throughout the DOE complex and its software is the same as at INEL. Since Jan. 1996, it has passed the first round of the Performance Demonstration Program and has been used to assay several hundred drums of LANL's TRU waste. Difficulties in assaying homogeneous wastes with high (α,n) neutron fluxes and experience in assaying debris waste in both active and passive PAN modes are reported on

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Also available from OSTI as DE97001668; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Imprint Pagination
13 p.
Report number
LA-UR--96-4723

Conference

Title
5. nondestructive assay/nondestructive examination waste characterization conference.
Dates
14-16 Jan 1997.
Place
Salt Lake City, UT (United States).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
28043278
Subject category
S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S98: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES; LANL; NONDESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
Descriptors DEC
ACTINIDES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELEMENTS; MATERIALS; METALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTES

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract W-7405-ENG-36
Funding organization
USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States).
Secondary number(s)
CONF-970126--2.