Sample Management
• Primary interface to customers
• Receives samples from customers
• Cuts and distributes samples to analysts
• Coordinates shipping of nuclear material between CMR and TA 55
• Distributes analytical data to customers
Process Analysis
Quick response analyses in support of TA 55 operations
• Radiochemistry
• Inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy
Trace Element Analysis
• Inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy (atomic emission mass
spectrometry)
• Direct current arc emission spectroscopy
• Cold vapor atomic fluorescence
Elemental Analysis by
X-ray Fluorescence
• Wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence
• Energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence
• X-ray microfluorescence
Mass Spectrometry Analysis
• Thermal ionization mass spectrometry
• High precision gas mass spectrometry
• Glow discharge mass spectrometry
Radiochemical Analysis
• Separations and sample preparation
• Alpha spectroscopy
• Gamma-ray spectroscopy
• Gas proportional counters
• Liquid scintillation counting
• Automatic gamma counter
Ion Chromatography
• Common inorganic and organic cations and anions
Interstitial Gas Analysis
• C, H, O, N
• Moisture
• Tritium
Actinide Assay
• Plutonium, Uranium, and Neptunium
Other
• Iron determination (spectrophotometric)
• Loss-on-ignition determination
• Free acid determination in Pu-containing solutions
• Standard solution preparation (Pu)
• Standard solution preparation (U)
• Special nuclear materials dissolutions
• Many miscellaneous analytical chemistry operations adapted to
analysis of radioactive material
