Nuclear Waste Management Program Chemical Processes Capabilities

Major Laboratory Equipment and Facilities

• Large-capacity triaxial flow-through system for radioactive and chemical tracers and chemical analyses.
• Large core leaching system with gamma emission tomography.
• Glove boxes for radioactive and hazardous materials and controlled atmosphere studies.
• Colloid chemistry characterization and transport laboratory.
• Aqueous geochemistry and water analysis laboratory.
• Reactive transport and sorption laboratory.

Analytical Capabilities

• Electron microscope/EDS laboratory for radioactive samples.
• Inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy.
• Flame and graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy.
• Mass spectroscopy.
• UV/visible light spectrophotometry.
• Luminescence spectrometry.
• Gas chromatography.
• High-performance liquid chromatography (including ion chromatography).
• Light-scattering photometry.
• Sub-micron particle size analysis (photon correlation spectroscopy).
• Electrophoretic mobility analysis (Doppler-shift).
• High-resolution particle spectrometry.
• Particle counter light-scattering photometry.
• Sub-micron tangential filtration system.
• Autotitration systems.
• Computer-aided flow-through titrimetry.
• Ion-selective electrodes.
• Liquid scintillation counting system.
• Total gamma radiation counters.
• Gamma spectroscopy system for identifying radioactive isotopes in mixtures.
• Polarography.
• X-ray flourescence spectroscopy.
• Total and disolved carbon analyses