• DocumentCode
    800763
  • Title

    The Underground Water Leaching of Radionuclides Produced in Soil by Hadrons Created in High Energy Proton Interactions

  • Author

    Awschalom, M. ; Borak, T.B. ; Fairman, W. ; Iwami, F. ; Sedlet, J. ; Distenfeld, C.H.

  • Author_Institution
    National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Illinois 60510
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1971
  • fDate
    6/1/1971 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    739
  • Lastpage
    740
  • Abstract
    Soil samples collected from the NAL construction site were irradiated downstream from Target stations at the Argonne National Laboratory ZGS and Brookhaven National Laboratory AGS. Radiochemical analyses were performed to determine the radioactivities induced in the soil. Batch-type leaching experiments were then conducted to determine the distribution of the induced radionuclides between the soil and water. Of the radionuclides uroduced in the soil, only 3H, 22Na, 45Ca and 54Mn were detected in the leach waters. The results were used to determine possible contamination of underground reservoirs.
  • Keywords
    Chemicals; Contamination; Laboratories; Leaching; Performance analysis; Proton accelerators; Reservoirs; Soil measurements; Spectroscopy; Water pollution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1971.4326168
  • Filename
    4326168