Below are the abstracts and related information from the Vendor Workshops,
Technical Workshops, Presentations, and Posters at the 42nd BAER Conference
in San Francisco, CA on 13-17 October 1996. Adobe Acrobat is generally
required for the presented information.
- Vendor Workshops
- Conference Presentations
- Conference Keynote Address
Radiation - What is Important?
Mark Hart
- Plutonium’s Odyssey: Fifty Years of Bioassay Data
William D. Moss
- Proposed ANSI/ANS 41.5 for Radioanalytical Data Validation
Saleem R. Salaymeh, Thomas L. Rucker, John E. Griggs, Jason C. Jang, Robert W. Holloway, Chung King Liu,
David E. McCurdy, Ann Rosecrance, Diane E. Vance, Richard Wells
- The Characterization of Low-Level Waste for Radionuclides
R. C. Hochel
- Benefits of DEEMS-DOE’s Standard Electronic Data Deliverable (A commercial laboratory’s perspective)
Terry McKibbin
- Review of Data from a Mixed Analyte Performance Evaluation Program Operated by the United States Department of Energy
James R. Dahlgran
- Sequential Extraction Methods: Applications in Identifying Geochemical Association of Radiological Contaminants and in Developing NIST Natural Matrix Standards
Michael Schultz, Bill Burnett, Kenneth G. W. Inn, Joylene W. L. Thomas, Zhichao Lin
- A Microwave Digestion Technique for the Rapid Dissolution of Oils and Liquid Scintillation Cocktails and the Leaching of Soil Hazardous Wastes
S. A. Kreek, B. B. Bandong, J. Bazan, R. Dougan, R. F. Gaylord, H. L. Halls
- Evaluation of the Effect of Preparation Techniques in Environmental Soil Samples an the Determination of Ra-226 from Daughter Nuclides
Eugene Sanin, M. W. Thorn
- A New Method for the Separation of Actinide Elements from Soils and Sediments
D. Reid Corbett, Micheal Schultz and Bill Burnett
- Determination of Femtogram Quantities of Plutonium in Urine: Evaluation of the Use of Electrothermal Vaporization Inductively Coupled Mass Spectroscopy
Richard Pietrzak
- Measurement of Cs-137 in Coconut Juice by Gamma Spectroscopy Following Separation on Ammonium Molybdophosphate (AMP)
Henry Jones, Steven Kehl, Kai Wong, William Steele, Marshal Stuart, William Robinson, Terry Hamilton
- Determination of Pb-210 in NIST Ashed Bone by Gamma-ray Spectroscopy
Victoria Beckles, Joy Thomas, Kenneth G. W. Inn
- Analytical Applications of the 3M Empore RAD Disks
Donna Beals
- A Comparison of the Relative Merits of Electroplating and Microprecipitation for the Alpha Spectroscopic Determination of Ra-226 and the Actinides
Bill McDowell, Rod Melgard
- Environmental Radiochemical Analysis Using Empore v Disk Technology
D. C. Seely, K. M. Hoffmann, J. A. Osterheim
- Automation of Radiochemical Analysis by Flow Injection Techniquese
Oleg Egorov, Jay W. Grate, Jaromir Ruzicka
- Improvements in Methodology for the Measurements in Radiostrontium in Environmental Samples
Hewitt W. Jeter
- Sequential Determination of Po-210, Sr-90 and Pb-210 in Environmental Matrices Using Sr-Spec Extraction Technology
Ying Dong Pan, Andrew Weitz and Doug J. VanCleef
- Uranium in Airborne Particulates at Fernald Using "DYNAWEB" Filters
Carl T. Bishop
- Solubility Distribution of Thorium in Columbia River Sediment (SRM 4350B)
Jennifer Spadanuta, Zhichao Lin, Kenneth G. W. Inn
- Determination of Baseline Atmospheric Plutonium -239,240 in the Vicinity of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Shan C. Lee, Donald J. Fingleton
- Uranium Site Characterization Based on Environmental Availability and Respirable Activity
M. Laudeman, D. Condra, S. Shipley
- Measurements of Environmental Radon Using TLD’s Revisited
Barbara C. Fields
- Determination of Plutonium in Flesh Using Surface Barrier Detection, Mass Spectrometry, and Liquid Scintillation Counting
Scott H. Reboul, J. Michael Pochkowski, Thomas R. Labone
- Development of an Improved Assay for the Determination of Gross Alpha and Beta Concentrations in Soil - Direct Counting of Soil Wafers
Roger Wong, Bill Burnett, Sue B. Clark, Cecilia DiPrete, Brian Crandall
- Development of an Improved Assay for the Determination of Gross Alpha and Beta Concentrations in Soil - Liquid Scintillation Counting
Bill Burnett, Roger Wong, Sue B. Clark, Cecilia DiPrete, Brian Crandall
- Gross Alpha and Beta Determinations by Liquid Scintillation Counting on Savannah River Site Waste Samples
D. P. DiPrete, S. F. Peterson, R. A. Sigg
- A New Approach to Gross Alpha Measurements in Liquid Samples Using Extraction Chromatography and LSC
Anil Thakkar, Michael Fern, Thomas Kupka, James Harvey
- Measurement of Pu-239 in Urine Samples by an Improved Fission Track Analysis Method
Anant R. Moorthy, Robert M. Dotys
- Chemistry and Analysis by Alpha Spectrometry of D-38 in Legacy Waste Samplese
Lennox J. Harris, Jay A. Dixon, Bryon B. Bandong, Everett B. Guthrie, Howard Hall, Anthony Be Lue
- Use of the Actinide-CU Resin for Preconcentration of Am and Pu in Analysis of Human Tissues
Hongguo Qu, Royston H. Filby
- Implementation of a Pu Bioassay Program Using Alpha Spectrometry and Mass Spectrometry
Dawn Lewis, D. W. Eford, D. J. Rokof, G. Miller
- Determination of Sr-90 in Environmental Samples using EmporeTM Rad Disks
Edward R. Gonzales, Richard Robinson
- Sequential Analysis of Plutonium and Americium in Water
Stephanie Woolf
- A Study of the Isotopic Uranium Abundance Ratios for Select California Groundwater
Carolyn T. Wong, Howard S. Okamoto, S. Kusum Perera, Yun-Gang Liu, Violeta M. Soliman, Tina C. Parangalan, Malkiat S. Gohal, Arthur M. Holden, Frank J. Baumann
- Low Level Organically Bound Tritium Measurements in Environmental and Biological Samples
T. Kotzer, A. Trivedi, T. Duong, W. Workman
- Determination of Gross Alpha Radioactivity in Sewage Sludge Samples
A. Khalique, B. Sawyer, D. R. Zenz, C. Lue-Hing
- Analysis of Pb-210 in Water and Soil Samples, Using Eichrom’s Lead Resin
Anil Thakkar, Dr. James Harvey
- The Design and Illustration of an Automatic Liquid Nitrogen Fill System for Low Volume Dewars Used in the LLNL Whole Body Counting Facility
Phil Hann, Bob Lochner
- A Joint HML-KAERI Project: Evaluation of the LLNL and JAERI Torso Phantom using four 50 mm Ge Detectors
Gary H. Kramer, Tae-Young Lee, Jong Soo Kim
- The Canadian National Calibration Reference Centre for In-Vivo Monitoring and the United States Department of Energy’s International In-Vivo Intercomparison
Gary H. Kramer, Robert M. Loesch, Peter C. Olsen
- Examination of the Effects of Counting Geometry on I-125 Monitoring Using MCNPe
Gary H. Kramer, Suzanne Yiu
- Chest-Wall Thickness Predictions for Actinide Lung Counting
J. R. Watts, J. M. Barber, G. R. Rao, M. C. McFee
- The Design and Implementation of the Portable Wound Counter Used in the LLNL Whole Body Counting Facility
Sandi Fisher
- Evaluating the Use of Field Instruments; a Statistical Approach
Tom Johnston, Dan Michael
- The Distribution of Naturally Occurring Thorium in Baseline Fecal Samples at the Fernald Environmental Management Project (FEMP)
M. Soldano, J. W. Neton
- Preparation and Certification of Performance Evaluation Materials: Pu-239 in Artificial Urine at the uBq (~100aCi) Level
Leenu E. Kuruvilla, David E. McCurdy, Kenneth G. W. Inn, Neil M. Barss
- Efficiency Calibration of Solid State Alpha Spectrometers
David Rodgers
- Gravimetric Yield by Constant Mass?
Zhichao Lin, Joy Thomas, Kenneth G. W. Inn, Robert E. Sleeman, Steven N. Bakhtiar
- Sr-90/Y-90 in 1 L Milk Samples Using Ammonium EDTA/Strong Acid Ion Exchange Resin Separation and a Tri-Carb 2770TR/SL Low Level Liquid Scintillation Analyzer
R. Kurt Ungar, J. C. Whyte
- Separation of Actinides by Ion Chromatography
Scott H. Reboul, Robert A. Field
- Se-79 in Solids and Liquid Samples
Cesar S. Sangalang, Marvin Clague, David Rodgers
- Evaluation of 3M Empore Radium Discs for Ra-226 and Ra-228 in Water
S. C. Scarpitta
- Re-Use of Eichrom Sr Chromatography Resin
Barry Stewart
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