Recent Publications and Reports

The following reports and publications were processed by the division office from April to June .

J. P. Baiardo, P. V. Wright, and C. R. Heiple, "Application of Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy as a Safeguards and Security Technology in Plutonium Management,"American Nuclear Society Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, June 25-29, 1995.

M. J. Palmer, "Solution Stabilization and Waste Stream Treatment of Actinide Solutions with Magnesium Hydroxide," Waste Minimization Conference, Knoxville, TN, May 16-18, 1995.

S. L. Yarbro and R. Long, "Turbulant Hydrodynamic Analysis of a Two-Phase Tubular Reactor," Mixing XV, 15th Biennial North American Mixing Conference, Banff, Canada, June 18-23, 1995.

D. Padilla, A. R. Schake, L. A. Worl, D. A. Hill, F. C. Prenger, D. A. Romero, and T. Tolt, "Magnetic Separation to Remove Actinides from Soil," The 209th National Meeting of the ACS Conference; TECH Division, Anaheim, CA, April 2-7, 1995.

J. D. Williams, "French/Los Alamos Meeting Update and SUBWOG 30A Meeting Update on Salt Distillation," The French Technical Exchange in France and SUBWOG 30A in United Kingdom, March 27 - April 7, 1995.

S. L. Yarbro and S. B. Schreiber, "Liquid Waste Treatment and Acid Recycle," Presentation to the French Delegation at Valduc, Dijon, France, March 27-31, 1995.

A. C. Lawson, J. Goldstone, B. Cort, R. J. Martinez, F. Vigil, and T. G. Zocco, "Structure of Zeta Phase Plutonium-Uranium," LAUR 94-1847, Submitted to Acta Crystallographica B, April, 1995.

A. R. Schake, L. R. Avens, D. D. Hill, D. D. Padilla, F. C. Prenger, D. A. Romero, T. L. Tolt, and L. A. Worl, "Magnetic Separation for Environmental Remediation, "Proceedings of the ACS Symposium on F-Elements Separation," The 207th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 24-30, 1994.

A. R. Schake, H. L. Tsai, R. J. Webb, K. Folting, G. Christou, and D. N. Hendrickson, "High-Spin Molecules: Iron(III) Incorporation into [Mn O (O Cph) (H O) ] to Yield [Mn Fe O (O Cph) (H O) ] and Its Influence on the S=10 Ground State of the Former,"J. Inorg. Chem. 33, 6020, 1994.

R. N. Mulford and K. C. Kim, "Measurement and Analysis of the Fourier Transform Spectrum of the n₃ and n₁+n₃ Fundamental of NpF₆ ," submitted to J. Mol. Spectro., May, 1995.

M. A. Williamson, "The Fuel Cycle Chemistry of Accelerator-Driven Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors," 1995 Midwest High Temperature and Solid State Conference, Rice University, Houston, Texas, June 19-20, 1995.

P. G. Allen, D. K. Veirs, S. D. Conradson, C. A. Smith, and S. F. Marsh, "Characterization of Aqueous Pu (IV) Nitrate Complexes by Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy," Submitted to J. Inorg. Chem.

L. A. Morales, "Characterization of Np (VI) in Nitric Acid Solutions," Midwest High-Temperature Chemistry and Solid State Conference, June 19-20, 1995, Houston, Texas.

The following presentations were given at the 19th Annual Actinide Separations Conference, Monterey, CA, June 12-15, 1995.

E. Garcia and V. R. Dole, "Distillation Separation of Chloride Salts from Plutonium."

W. H. Atkins, J. M. Berg, M. S. Blau, D. E. Christianson, W. R. Dworzak, C.E. Klatt, T. O. Nelson, H. J. Newman, R. V. Pasquale, and P. Sayka, "Design of a Furnace-Based Tritium Decontamination System for Plutonium."

K. W. Fife, "Status of the Plutonium Vault Remediation Effort at Los Alamos."

R. E. Wieneke, "Transuranic Residue Treatment: Regulatory Considerations."

R. E. Wieneke, "Computerized Waste Documentation at the TA-55 plutonium Facility."

W. H. Atkins, M. M. Fowler, H. E. Martinez, T. O. Nelson, and L. H. Stapf, "Design of an Alpha Spectrometer to Determine Plutonium and Americium Contamination on Uranium."

T. O. Nelson, M. E. Huerta, L. Jaramillo, H. E. Martinez, A. N. Morgan, W. Romero, and L. H. Stapf, 'Electrolytic Decontamination of Oralloy - A Disposition Task."

L. M. Spanks, D. L. Sanzo, K. W. Fife, M. K. Sasser, and T. F. Yarbro, "A Risk-based Prioritization for the Stabilization and Repackaging of Nuclear Materials at the Los Alamos Plutonium Facility."

L. D. Schulte, S. D. McKee, and R. R. Salazar, "Full Scale Testing of Extraction Chromatography for Actinide Decontamination of Concentrated Hydrochloric Acid Waste Streams," LA-UR 94-4160.

R. R. Salazar, B. J. Griego, L. D. Schulte, S. D. McKee, W. B. Smith, M. J. Palmer, and V. A. Hatler, "Oxalate Precipitation of Pu(III) from Very Dilute Hcl Solutions."

G. DePoorter, K. M. Axler, R. A. Pereyra, and P. C. Lopez, "Processing of C-saturated Tantalum Hardware for Actinide Pyrochemical Processing."

M. Dinehart, D. W. Gray, V. A. Hatler, C. Brown, A. D. Guillen, and B. Griego, "Actinide Neutron Source Recovery."

S. B. Schreiber, B. T. Martinez, E. M. Ortiz, and S. L. Yarbro, "RFETS Solution Stabilization Flowsheet Development."

D. A. Romero, et al., "Nuclear Applications for Magnetic Separations."