Published 1991
| Version v1
Report
Sorters for soil cleanup
Creators
Description
A soil sorter is a system with conveyor, radiation detectors, and a gate. The system activates the gate based on radiation measurements to sort soil to either clean or contaminated paths. Automatic soil sorters have been perfected for use in the cleanup of plutonium contaminated soil at Johnston Atoll. The cleanup processes soil through a plant which mines plutonium to make soil clean. Sorters at various locations in the plant effectively reduce the volume of soil for mining and they aid in assuring clean soil meets guidelines
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Environmental remediation 1991: ''Cleaning up the environment for the 21st Century''
- Imprint Pagination
- 896 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 531-532.
- Report number
- CONF-910981--
Conference
- Title
- Environmental remediation '91 conference.
- Dates
- 8-11 Sep 1991.
- Place
- Pasco, WA (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 25021503
- Subject category
- S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AUTOMATION; DECONTAMINATION; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION DETECTORS; REMEDIAL ACTION; SOILS; SORTING
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; CLEANING; ELEMENTS; EXPLOSIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS