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K-Edge X-ray Fluorescence Analysis for Actinide and Heavy Elements Solution Concentration Measurements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

David C. Camp
David C. Camp*
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory University of California Livermore, CA 94550
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There are currently no plans for the commercial reprocessing of nuclear fuel in the U.S. This is not the case in Japan, England, France, Germany, or the USSR. The U.S. does, however, include the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel as a part of its defense programs. The Office of Safeguards and Security of DOE's Defense Programs has funded the development and optimization of numerous nondestructive analysis techniques including K-edge x-ray fluorescence analysis. This paper reviews some of the implementation efforts resulting from R&D supported by that office.

In 1979, the concept of using K-edge x-ray fluorescence analysis (K XRFA) for the analysis of actinide solution concentrations was first presented. K XRFA using small radioactive Co-57 sources has been shown to be a practical way to measure actinide solution concentrations in offline, at-line, or on-line configurations. The experimental methodology is elegant and the hardware is simple.

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III. New Techniques and Instrumentation in XRF
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 28: Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1984 , 1984 , pp. 91 - 98
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1984

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