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Report: Radiological Sciences Department Monthly Section Reports January 1956 (HW-41233)

Dated
Feb 6, 1956
Document type
Report
Length
27 pages
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The cal orb net ric neas re ment d' the ez is zion of a Cc60 sour<e vas repeated tc take getiler w i t h ionization measurements on water fraa the Hanford tritium st.?nn2;.;-l KCX. provide an absolute mcasurement of the energy reqcL-ed t o ,Corn an ion paL- by low e ner Q be tarp. 'his be the only such measummtnt n vail n ble. fabricated ,Ccr the neasuremmt d the isotopic fractionation far Equipment was fabricated far stu eing the ' effects of dUfer€!nt t ki chesa Tar the will be small,but too little vi11 alter the r q on seto radia+&on. Stu aes ucre continued on tke application of gama scintilla tian counting tec-iques t o monitoring radioisotopes in ren c to ref - luent water. can ba co dined to a MZOWc nerc xtzge covelllng the pho'uopeak OT the radio boto pe being mees-xred, some cer ; tri but im is counted from Compton, photopsak, ad6 - a - tion radiation from other isotopes ve sent. for these ex tr meow counts and a six ple monitor% system is pos s fbi e, PSnimum thickness is desired so that the weight i n sane case3 correc'liora um be made Cm? can be determined i n the same sqle if acm c tion for Nu239 is made. coincidence the two 0 . 9 Hev positron annihiLlt1on r a y s can be counted. An j a vt xe ment in the Sr90 procedure -8 made T=X-in-bsnzene extract lon for in ccmbinntiar. vith ossi hle by the development ofa

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net e oro loci cal effects of the r;oposr?d Cablc Lake vas completed, 1955 aerial photographs of smoke plumes i n s'uable atmospnsres. several iq or tant fc a td - e s of atmospheric diffusion in the pr-scnce of a temper st we that the dependence of concentration of Enterial within the nlume upon d.1stance from the sou-ce i s clepr'ly variable frm one sj tu ation to another. finding denies the validity of the 'IFickian" type r!ificusion conclusively and. the former introduces sew re difTiculties inthe use or5utton ' sef ien sim of Taylor'a @ To thesis corremiw =fusion by continuous motions, h w-evaluation of the theoretical treatment was therefore undertaken, usin& the local obse-vations as a basis I or establishing a mme accL-ate am reliable guide to the prediction of contaminant concentrations near the gource. datg on the gruund level concentrations foil o ul nr,the in version break - q . Operation of the wind station network continued at as atl s fact cy level an2 the reduction of data received continued on a routine basb. logical data s mac ies on the IEX 702 Corzputer continueu satis factor ' ,ly, The data demorutrnted Experiments were planned to pro ride

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feet southeast of the site. It is poatulated that subsidence of the vater.Tound be neat t the old B Plant swazp was an ir,2uence i n +he Felense ofAt:e site ? front rs nc ing from 12 t o 63 feat per day estimnter! from vcll el uti on tests. Total beta activity inc;-cnaee of 10 t o 100-Co16 The labors to7 tests wefe completed on the Deep Well Probe and it uns deli-re-d t o the Sar th Sciences Unit. equinment so that a well can b e scanned for particular energies of raC..rtion as a The insttrument incorporates energ). spectrum anal;'sis A ddt ional testing was completed on an experimental model Beta-CammaoScinti'll:,tion for beta energies above about 100 kev. A n experimental model Dose Integrator was de eloped and tested. ens &ode l X nl ted Miller in te gx tor, counting rates from one cant pei minute t o 2.200 cmts per ndnute are rea2ikv attainable Fn three ranges withp06U near it y An investigation of the fe3si bill ty uf analyt.in,: a complex &ma speccnzm by mathematical methods was completed; resdts inc iz ted that the rretkkod wan feasible. Edu ation tests were eq1ete.l on an Alpha L-Monito? m d U2m Sp tem and on a The tests indicated the instmment to be about five t-3 aS Battery life tests ca-ntinued on the Sanscn and BF3 e -IC- DE CLASS IF IE

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