Industrial Radioactive Waste Disposal: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Radiation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session ...

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Considers problems of radioactive waste disposal and the precautions, safeguards, and standards to ensure safe handling of these wastes. Includes numerous nongovernmental reports on the sources and types of radioactive wastes. Focuses on the problems of dumping radioactive wastes into the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

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Page 2133 - States, bounded on the north by British Columbia ; on the south by the Gulf of Mexico ; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Page 2035 - We will stand in recess now until 2 o'clock this afternoon. (Thereupon, at 11 :50 am, the subcommittee was recessed, to reconvene at 2 pm, same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION — THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1960 COMMODITY STABILIZATION SERVICE STATEMENTS OF MARVIN L.
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Page 2451 - The record discloses that minimum standards for cement have been steadily increased since standard specifications were introduced by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Testing Materials in 1904.
Page 2465 - Standards, specifications, and methods of testing for instrumentation In the nuclear field including instrumentation for personnel protection, reactor control, industrial processes, analysis and laboratory work, radiation calibration equipment and components therefor.
Page 1986 - When an acid mix is heated the nitric acid concentration increases and the complexes tend to become completely nitrated. Further heating leads to oxidation and decomposition of these complexes to form the volatile ruthenium tetroxide. If the initial acid concentration is high enough nearly all the ruthenium can be removed from a mix heated to 400°C.
Page 2462 - Safety standards for the protection of persons employed in facilities associated with the production and utilization of fissionable materials against the normal, routine hazards present in such facilities (facilities include mines, mills, refineries, separation plants, fuel element fabrication plants, critical assembly facilities, processing and reprocessing plants, working areas around nuclear reactors of all types, and transportation, and purification of "spent fuel elements" and gross fission...
Page 2007 - For additional particle removal, the off -gas is passed through a venturi scrubber which utilizes a dilute nitric acid scrub solution obtained by condensation from the off-gas. Droplets and scrubbed particles are separated from the gas in a second cyclone. The scrub solution is cooled and recycled and a portion is continuously drawn off to compensate for liquid produced by condensation. After passing the off-gas through a cooler and condenser, gases are vented to the atmosphere through an absolute-type...
Page 2014 - Ru deposited on interior walls of vessels and piping, causing low material balances. activity in a series of runs at this temperature are summarized in Table 4. Because of the refractory nature of the calcined alumina, an accurate determination of its ruthenium content was difficult. However, the results obtained indicated that about 20 ± 10% of the feed ruthenium was retained in the solid product. The ruthenium in the condensate ranged from 43 to 75% of the feed ruthenium, and the noncondensable...
Page 2005 - ANL on conversion of aluminum nitrate to alumina. Advantages conceived of were the absence of moving parts in the conversion device, applicability to continuous processing, ease of transporting the product to storage, and utilization of alumina coming from the fuel alloy as a fission product retaining medium.

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