NUCLWednesday, August 22, 2007

9:00 AM-11:50 AM Boston Park Plaza -- Stuart Rm, Oral
Analytical Chemistry in Nuclear Technology
Applications of X-Ray Techniques
Organizers:Charles Coleman
David Hobbs
David Hobart
Dominic Peterson
Lav Tandon
Official:Christopher G. Worley
9:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
9:05 AMX-ray based methods for nuclear materials characterization
George J. Havrilla
9:30 AMRecent developments in a dried residue specimen preparation method for quantifying analytes in plutonium metal by X-ray fluorescence
Christopher G. Worley
9:55 AMExamples of the usefulness of X–ray powder diffraction to characterize uranium compounds
Heather M. Volz, John T. Dunwoody, Lav Tandon, Rodney J. McCabe, John R. FitzPatrick, Robert E. Hackenberg
10:20 AMIntermission
10:35 AMX-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy as a probe of chemical speciation and intrinsic nanoscience of actinide-containing materials
Steven D. Conradson
11:00 AMSynchrotron studies of actinide speciation in solution
L. Soderholm, S. Skanthakumar, M. R. Antonio
11:25 AMSoft X-ray scanning transmission spectromicroscopy of actinide materials
D. K. Shuh, Tolek Tyliszczak, Peter S. Nico, Rainer Daehn

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