Gamma-spectrometric measurement procedure for a clearance concept of radioactively contaminated mercury from nuclear facilities-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Gamma-spectrometric measurement procedure for a clearance concept of radioactively contaminated mercury from nuclear facilities

Published:2021-06-24 Issue:2 Volume:329 Page:565-580
ISSN:0236-5731
Container-title:Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
language:en
Short-container-title:J Radioanal Nucl Chem

Author:

Klaß Larissa^ORCID,Ritz Philipp,Hirsch Marius,Kettler John,Havenith Andreas,Wilden Andreas^ORCID,Modolo Giuseppe^ORCID

Abstract

AbstractRadioactive mercury waste constitutes a significant challenge, as no approved disposal concept yet exists for such waste in Germany. This work describes a decontamination and measurement procedure for a possible clearance of mercury from nuclear facilities and release into reuse or conventional hazardous waste disposal to reduce the amount of mercury in a nuclear repository. The measurement setup and procedure were developed and evaluated including Monte-Carlo N-Particle® Transport Code (MCNP® and Monte Carlo N-Particle® are registered trademarks owned by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, manager and operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory, (Werner 2018, Werner 2017)), simulations to ensure conservative assumptions during the measurements. Results from decontaminated mercury samples show that a clearance pursuant to the German regulations would be feasible.

Funder

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Spectroscopy,Pollution,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Nuclear Energy and Engineering,Analytical Chemistry

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10967-021-07840-7.pdf

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