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The chemistry of acetohydroxamic acid related to nuclear fuel reprocessing

Creator:: Matteson, Brent Searle
Abstract:: Used Nuclear Fuel (UNF) contains transuranic (TRU) elements and numerous fission products as a result of the uranium fission process and neutron activation that occur in commercial light water power reactors. Recent environmental and nuclear proliferation concerns have spawned the development of advanced reprocessing techniques to close the nuclear fuel...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: presented on May 27, 2010. Title: The Chemistry of Acetohydroxamic Acid Related to Nuclear Fuel

Investigation of mixed N,O-donor dipicolinamide derivative ligands for use in nuclear fuel separations

Creator:: Lapka, Joseph
Abstract:: In this work, three isomeric forms of N, N'-diethyl, N, N'-ditolyldipicolinamide (EtTDPA) were synthesized. The elements thorium through americium, which make up a significant portion of the actinides in used nuclear fuel (with the exception of curium), and two fission products, molybdenum and technetium, were tested for their ability to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: technetium with diamides of dipicolinic acid from nitric acid solutions. Journal of Radioanalytical and

Design, construction, and characterization of a prompt gamma activation analysis facility at the Oregon State University TRIGA® reactor

Creator:: Robinson, Joshua A.
Abstract:: In this work a prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) facility has been designed, built, and characterized at the Oregon State University TRIGA® reactor. PGNAA is a technique used to determine the presence and quantity of trace elements such as boron, hydrogen and carbon which are more difficult to detect...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Engineering Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Synthesis and testing of a novel soft donor organic extractant molecule for targeted soft metal extraction from aqueous phases

Creator:: Gullekson, Brian J.
Abstract:: Spent nuclear fuel (SNF) resultant from the generation of nuclear power is a chemically and radiologically diverse system which is advantageous to chemically process prior to geologic disposal. Hydrometallurgy is the primary technology for chemical processing for light water reactor spent fuels, where spent fuel is dissolved in an acid...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: _______________________________________________________________ Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AEC interpretations of radiation exposure. Academics served as the glue to promote nuclear and

The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

Creator:: Swanner, Leandra
Abstract:: This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of nuclear science and early accelerator experiments in the 1930s, see Mary Jo Nye, Before Big

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis

Nuclear Imperialism: Examining Atomic Test Reactions and UN Intervention in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957-1966

Creator:: Bremigan, Shelby R.
Abstract:: France’s decision to test their nuclear weapons program in the Sahara in 1960 wholly reshaped how the Cold War infiltrated into West Africa. During a time of nation building, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah urged Ghana and Africa, more broadly, to break ties with colonial powers and rebuke further attempts of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and rebuke further attempts of what he declared to be “nuclear imperialism” on the part of France

The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Creator:: Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth
Abstract:: The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity. This is especially so of the role imagination played in Szilard’s worldview. Szilard, like many other scientists in the mid-twentieth century, worked on the Manhattan Project. Like these other wartime participants, the work and relationships formed during...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Szilard was deeply influenced by The World Set Free and his ideals of a world with nuclear weapons

Studying fusion reactions for effect of PCN on heavy nucleus formation and for nuclear structure effects

Creator:: Naik, Radhika
Abstract:: The fusion reaction ²⁰⁸Pb (⁵⁰Ti, xn) ²⁵⁸⁻x Rf (x = 1-3) was studied to determine PCN (probability that the mononucleus system evolves to form a compound nucleus inside the fission saddle point) and to establish the value of Wsur (survival probability) for the given reaction experimentally. The fission excitation function...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Studying Fusion Reactions for Effect of PCN on Heavy Nucleus Formation and for Nuclear Structure Effects

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The chemistry of acetohydroxamic acid related to nuclear fuel reprocessing

Investigation of mixed N,O-donor dipicolinamide derivative ligands for use in nuclear fuel separations

Design, construction, and characterization of a prompt gamma activation analysis facility at the Oregon State University TRIGA® reactor

Synthesis and testing of a novel soft donor organic extractant molecule for targeted soft metal extraction from aqueous phases

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Nuclear Imperialism: Examining Atomic Test Reactions and UN Intervention in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957-1966

The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Studying fusion reactions for effect of PCN on heavy nucleus formation and for nuclear structure effects

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