Cerenkov Counter for In-Situ Groundwater Monitoring of 90Sr

Cerenkov Counter for In-Situ Groundwater Monitoring of 90Sr

Groundwater contamination from Sr is an environmental challenge posed to present and former nuclear weapons related sites. Traditional methods of extracting groundwater samples and performing laboratory analyses are expensive, time-consuming and induce significant disposal challenges. The authors present here a prototype counter capable of measuring Sr groundwater concentrations in-situ at or b...

Optical Transmittance of Common Cerenkov Counter Gases ”

The optical transmittance of the commonly used Cerenkov counter gases, Freon 12, Freon 13; C02, SF8, and N2, was measured in the range from 1875 A to 8000 A, and normalized for a 100 cm X 1 atm path. Calculations of efficiency for Cerenkov counters, particularly threshold type, require a knowledge of the optical transmittance of the counter filling for the Cerenkov light. For many of the gases ...

Measurement of 90Sr in Reactor Wastes by Cerenkov Counting of 9oY

Determination of 90Sr in low-level radioactive wastes (LLW) from reactors is difficult because of the presence of so many other radionuclides in samples of interest. This problem was dealt with by radiochemical separation of strontium followed by yttrium separation and Cerenkov counting of the high-energy B-particle emissions of 9oY in order to quantitate s”Sr. Separation of this important nuch...

“in Situ” Groundwater Treatment

13 In Situ : Groundwater Bioremediation

In situ groundwater bioremediation of hydrocarbons has been used for more than 40 years. Most strategies involve biostimulation; however, recently bioaugmentation have been used for dehalorespiration. Aquifer and contaminant profiles are critical to determining the feasibility and strategy for in situ groundwater bioremediation. Hydraulic conductivity and redox conditions, including concentrati...