Excerpts from SRL monthly reports on waste management

Published: United States : [publisher not identified], 1967.
[Oak Ridge, Tennessee] : [U.S. Atomic Energy Commission], 1967.
Physical Description: microfiche : negative ; 11 x 15 cm

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Summary

Radiophosphorus was first pumped to the K-Area 50-million gallon containment basin from the vertical tube storage basin at the Savannah River Piant in August 1965. From September to mid-November 1965, Tendipedidae midges emerging from the containment basin had sorbed /sup 32/P by factors of 10/sup 5/ to 10/sup 6/ (sup 32/P midge/water ratio), and spread the /sup 32/P locally. Attempts to control the midges by applying DDT and pouring diesel oil on the surface of the water did not succeed. Essentially no midges emerged during the winters of 1965-66 and 1966-67; and during the warm months of 1966 their emergence was controlled effectively by two applications of Abate 4E, malathion, and diesel oil. Dragonflies that were collected near the basin during this period accumulated /sup 32/P factor of approximates 10/sup 3/. Data are also presented on the content of /sup 32/P in algae; fish, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, and insect-eating birds collected in the area, and in Lespedeza growing on the lateral trenches and banks of the large containment basin. (CH)

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TID-26518

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission depository collection.

Note

NSA number: NSA-29-024203
OSTI Identifier 4337801
Research organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, S.C. (USA). Savannah River Lab.

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