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Nondestructive Evaluation of Radioactive Waste Drums Containing Miscellaneous Waste Forms

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Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation

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Vast quantities of radioactive waste materials have been generated as a result of the production of nuclear energy and defense materials over the past five decades. It is estimated that there are over 1.4 million buried and stored drums of radioactive waste within the U.S. Department of Energy complex [1,2].

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  1. Integrated Data Base for 1990: U.S. Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Inventories, Projections, and Characteristics. Report prepared for the DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management and Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management.

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  2. United States Department of Energy Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Five Year Plan, Fiscal Years 1992–1996, June 1990.

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  1. Scientific Measurement Systems, Inc., 2209 Donley Drive, Austin, Texas, 78758, USA

    John Steude, Ed Strickland, Dee Summers & Ruben Reyes

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  1. Center for NDE, Ames Laboratory (USDOE), Ames, Iowa, USA

    Donald O. Thompson

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

    Donald O. Thompson

  3. Center for NDE, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Dale E. Chimenti

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Dale E. Chimenti

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Steude, J., Strickland, E., Summers, D., Reyes, R. (1993). Nondestructive Evaluation of Radioactive Waste Drums Containing Miscellaneous Waste Forms. In: Thompson, D.O., Chimenti, D.E. (eds) Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2848-7_294

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