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Univ of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor Annual Operating Rept to DOE & NRC for FY89-90
ML20056A572
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Site: University of Wisconsin
Issue date: 06/30/1990
From: Cashwell R
WISCONSIN, UNIV. OF, MADISON, WI
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University of Wisconsin NUCLEAR REACTOR LALVJRATDRV ADDRESS DEPARTMENT CW NUCLEAR FNGINEERINO AND ENGINEERINO PHY$tC$ MECHANICAL ENQlNEERING thulLDING BHONL tMS) 462 H92 IS13 UNIVER5tTV AVENUE MADi&ON $37CS-151, t

Tech Specs August 2, 1990 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission '

i ATTN: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555

SUBJECT:

- License R-74, Docket 50-156: Annual Operating Report i

Dear Sir,

.l Enclosed herewith is a copy of the Annual Report for the fiscal year 1989-90 fc the University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor  ;

Laboratory as required by our Technical Specifications. '

very truly yours,

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. J. Cashwell Reactor Director

Enclosure:

Annual Report RJC/cke c: Region III, Ad.ninistrator, U.S. NRC, 799 Roosevelt Road,.

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Table of Contents A.

SUMMARY

OF OPERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

. 1. INSTRUCTIONAL USE -- UW-Madison Formal Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. REACTOR SHARING PROGRAM-. . . . . . . . . 2

, 3. SAMPLE IRRADIATIONS AND NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANE fSIS SERVICES . . . . . . 4

4. OTHER MAJOR RESEARCH USE . . . . . . . . 8
8. CHANGES IN TT,RSONNEL, FACILITY AND PROCEDURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. RESULTS OF SURVEILLANCE TELTS . . . . . . 8 B. OPERATING STATISTICS AND FUEL EXPOSURE . . . 9 C. EMERGENCY SMUTDOWNS AND INADVERTENT SCRAMS . 9 D. MAINTENANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 E. CHANGES IN THE FACILITY OR PROCEDURES REPORTABLE UNDER 10CFR 50.59 . . . . . . . 10 F. . ADICACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL . . . . . . . . 11
1. SOLID WASTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2. LIQUID WASTE . . . . . . . .. . . . . 11
3. PARTICULATE AND GASEOUS ACTIVITY RELEASED TO THE ATMOSPHERE . . . . . . 11 TABLE 1: Liquid Waste to Sanitary Sewer . . 12 TABLE 2: Effluent From Stack . . . . . . . 13 G.

SUMMARY

OF RADIATION EXPOSURE OF PERSONNEL (1 JULY-1989 - 30 APRIL 1990) . . 14 H. RESULTS OF ENV2RONMENTAL SURVEYS . . . , . 14 I. PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATION 3 ON WORK BASED ON REACTOR USE . . . . . . . . . . . 15 O

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1. INSTRUCTIONAL USE -- UW-Madison Formal Classes ,

I Forty-fs< atudents enrolled in NEEP 231 participated in -

a two-hour laboratory session introducing students to reactor behavior characteristics. Twelve hours of reactor operating  !

time were devoted to this session.

NEEP 427 was offered in the fall and spring semesters and i had an enrollment of thirty-seven. Several NEEP 427 i experiments use materials that are activated in the reactor, i One' experiment entitled " Radiation Survey" requires that students make measurements of radiation levels in and around the-reactor laboratory. All1of these reactor uses take place during normal isotope-production runs,,so no reactor time is specifically devotedito NEEP;427. -

The enrollment-in NEEP 428 was. nineteen as-it was offered in both semesters.. Four of these. students (power plant s employees) took the-course'as an " outreach" course by ceming to-campus during' spring break:and exam week and performing the experiments. Three experiments in NEEP 428 require exclusive use of the reactor. :Each ofithese experiments

(" Critical Experiment," " Control ~ Element' Calibration," and 1

" Pulsing") was repeated four'timesLduring the year requiring '

a' total of 77-hours of exclusive reactor use. Other NEEP 428 laboratory sessions use material that- has been irradiated irt the reactor (" Fast Neutron Flux Measurements by Threshold Foil Techniques" and " Resonance Absorption"). These two- 1 experiments were repeated six times.during the year, j Twenty-five NEEP 305 students used the reactor for an o

experiment to measure the half-lives of the longer-lived 9

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Individual one to two-hour sessions in the reactor l laboratory were also held for other classes. A first this year was use-of the facility for a two-hour laboratory class (30-students) for the Art Department.

A group of seven students from the Kewaunee Nuclear Power plant completed a two-week Research Reactor Training program.

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l UWNR Annual-Report'1989-90 Page 2 This' program provides reinforcement of information learned in-operator training programs, particularly in the area of reactor theory. Students' perform at least ten startup/ shutdown cycles on the reactor, in addition to completing laboratory sessions on instrumentation and-

-radiation measurements. ,

2. REACTOR SHARING PROGRAM q User institutions participated in the program as detailed below.  !

Participating Principle. Number of Student /

Institution Investicator Faculty Involved  !

APS Local- )

High School ,

f Student Group Erickson 1/201 1 This-group of local high school students with interests in science toured the facility for- i a nuclear power lecture. ,

Colorado College .E. Henrickson 1/3  !

NAA of geological samples for student thesis projects.

Cottage Grove, WI School "le. ' ' + R. Paulson 1/90 >

EN . -c .vwer exhibit provided and manned for~ Science  !

  • Day q Edgewe-a'Collee' Madisc 'I P. Weldy 3/2 L k. n' rtcacion/ lecture for Advanced Chemistry Class.

Edgewv.- an 4 + ,1-  !

Madista, P. Brainard 1/20

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- Mathematic '- N. Priegel 1/51

. Tour of reactor facility for attendees at conference on non-traditional careers for high school women.

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Madison, WI M. Mohalha 1/80 ,  !

l Fond du Lac High School. ,

Fond du . I;ec, WI JB. Harptmar. 1/3 tour et J abcratories for- advanced- science class OO ,do.nt k 4 >

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' Institute P. Gossen 1/5 Reactor operation demonstration showing subcritical, critical, supercritical, and prompt supercritical modes ,

for students in a health physics techniciac training program.

Madison West I High School,

Madison,-WI M. Lehman 1/150 Nuclear. power lecture and laboratory tour.

McFarland: School j

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McFarland, WI S.-Weber 1/65

-Lecture on: radiation and radioactive waste.

Milwaukee School

.of? Engineering, i Milwaukee, WI. J. Dieball -1/6 .

Reactor operation demonstration as described above. ]

Omega School H. Gill 1/3 Tour and nuclear power demonstration for an adult school class.

Orchard Ridge 1 Middle' School, Madison, WI J. Kotoskf 1/90 - t Provided pro-nuclear speaker for an Energy Debate. I 1

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Spring Green, WI G. Wagner Laboratory tour and nuclear power lecture.

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. Minnesota-Duluth R. Rapp 2/4 Continuation'of project.using NAA of artifacts to determine provinence.

Serpentine samples were analyzed.

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'1 Platteville, WI H. Fenrick 1/2  !

NAA demonstration for students in a radioisotopes techniques course.  ;

i Van Hise - l Middle School, Madison, WI- M. Niedmeyer- 1/100 1 Provided nuclear power booth at Science Fair. q Verona High I

-School, - 1 LVerona, WI D. Varer 1/2 l Laboratory tour and radiation detection instrument -

demonstration. l D. Varer 1/1  ;

Mentorship program for student with interest in reactor operations.

Waunakee High School-Waunakee, WI. J. Abledenger 1/40 Laboratory tour and nuclear power lecture, ,

3. SAMPLE IRRADIATIONS AND. NEUTRON-ACTIVATION-ANALYSIS' I SERVICES

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I There were 1,484 individual samples irradiated during the year. Of-these samples, 876-were irradiated'for 15 minutes or less. . The remaining samples accumulated 251.4 irradiation space hours and 1,544.5 sample hours. Many samples were ,

irradiated and then counted at.the' Reactor Laboratory ~as part  !

p, of our neutron activation analysis service. In the listing.  !

j below the notation (NAA) indicates'that the samples were  !

% processed by our neutron activation analysis service, while V RSP listed as source'of' support indicates ~ work done under the i l' DOE Reactor Sharing Program. '

R Chemistry Department, UW-Madison (NAA) 67 samples, 33 less than 15 minutes, 34.77 sample hours, 2.25 t; irradiation space hours. Professor Thomas Record, one ,

y additional staff member, and two graduate students used the  ;

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1 NAA service to measure sodium concentrations in DNA solutions in order to quantify ion /DNA reactions. Supported-by NIH and

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Chemical Engineering Department, UW-Madison . * =

g 8 samples, 7 less than 15 minutes', 1.67: sample hours, 1,67 t

irradiation space hours.- Professor Thatcher Root and one graduate student irradiated Sic to create defects in an -

effort to. reduce the NMR relaxation-time.due to "C.

Supported by NSF and industrial grant.

Civil'and Environmental Engineering Department,

=UW-Madison (NAA) 44 samples, 8.less than 15 minutes, 79 sample hours, 4 irradiation space hours. Professor R. Hamm, one additional

.m staff' member, and 1 graduate student used NAA to measure l- metal' content of garbage in a reclamation project using material that would otherwise go into sanitary landfills.

Supported by industrial grant.

96 samples,'51 less than 15 minutes, 146.5 sample hours, 11.2 irradiation space hours. Professor R. Hamm and 1 graduate y Estudent used the NAA service in an evaluation of the use of foundry wastes for highway fill material. . Supported by.

Wisconsin Departments of Transportation and. Natural Resources .-

Colorado College (NAA) 111 samples,-39 less than 15 minutes, 153.5 sample hours,

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' '13.75' irradiation space hour. Professor Henrickson and 12 students used the NAA service for investigation of-trace element concentrations in1 rocks and rock. systems. Supported by DOE Reactor' Sharing Program.

Edgewood College, Madison, WI- (NAA) 111ess than 15 minute sample, 0.25 sample hours, 0.25 irradiation space hours. Professor and two students participated in a laboratory-session,on' neutron activation analysis. Supported-by DOE Reactor Sharing Program.

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I Forestry /Home Economics, UW-Madison (NAA) tJ 1 38 samples, 38 less-than'15 minutes, 9.5 sample hours, 9.5 irradiation space hours. Professor Young and one graduate ,

student used the NAA service to measure the amount of fluorocarbon coatingLleft on cloth as a function of number of washings. Support unknown.

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r Rewaunee Nuclear Power Plant 3 samples, all less than 15 minutes, 0.75 sample" hours, 0.75 irradiation: space hours, seven students. Irradiations:in support of operator training program, mostly demonstrations  !

of-activities produced during reactor operations. Industrial  :

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Lakeshore Technical Institute (NAA) 1 less than-15 minute sample, 0.25 sample hours,-0.25 irradiation space hours. Irradiation in support-of- "

instruction in NAA. Supported by DOE Reactor Sharing.

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4 68 samples,.58 less than 15 minutes, 17 sample hours, 4 irradiation space hours. Professor John H. Perepezko, three additional staff members and 5 students are using~the NAA O '

service for analysis of Nb-Ti-Al alloys. The analyses are y;

then used to accurately determine the phase diagram of the-7' alloy system. Supported by DARPA through the office of Naval

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NEEP 427 Laboratory 10 , 165 samples, 109 less than 15 minutes, 223.5= sample hours, 48-f,. irradiation-space hours. Irradiations in support of. teaching 10  ? laboratory.

h r NEEP 428 Laboratory "i t .79 samples,;28 less than 15 minutes,.101.7 sample-hours, 58.6 K' t irradiationfspace hours; Irradiations in support-of teaching l -? laboratory, y-L Reactor Laboratory 6 samples, 4 less.than 15 minutes, 1.5 sample hours, 1.3 b ""

-irradiation' space hours. Irradiations for measurements and instrument calibrations.

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@1 6 samples, 12 sample hours, 2 irradiation space hours, one M staff member usec the NAA service to' determine impurity levels in impurity. Industrial support.

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--7 Department of Physics, UW-Madison (NAA)' -i 6_ samples, all less than'15 minutes, 1.5 sample hours, .25 irradiation space. hours. Professor D. McCammon.and 4 J graduate students used the NAA service to measure the mass of-

  • I h gold in thermal x-ray detector array elements. Supported by ,

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20 samples, 10 less than 15 minutes, 20 sample hours,.2.88 i irradiation space hours. Analysis of effects of_ foundry ;i wastes used as; fill material on ecology of cleaned-up site.  ;

Industrial support. {

Department-of Soil Science, UW-Madison (NAA)- '

b 1 sample less'than 15 minutes, 0.25 sample hours, 0.25 irradiation space hours. Professor Helmke and three graduate 3 L students.' NAA:and tracer production to study element behavior in soil-water-plant systems. Support by Hatch Act 3 and-EPA.

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53 samples, all11ess than 15 minutes, 13.25 sample hours, L 13.25 1* radiation space hours. Professor S. Kung, two l additionT1> staff members, and one graduate student used the L '

NAA service to measure the C1 and Br levels.in potato plant residues as-part of a study of leaching of materials'from agricultural: fields. Supported by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

University.of Minnesota-Duluth (NAA) 600 samples, 349 less than'15 minutes, 647.25 sample hours, -

59 irradiation space hours. Professor Rapp and-associates' M

L continueditheircresearch-of_ establish a data base for-Li determining-provenance of serpentine samples. -Supported by 3 DOE: Reactor Sharing Program.- 7

' University of' Wisconsin Hospitals (NAA) 3-samples, 6 sample hours, 2 irradiation hours.

Professors Lindgren and Everson used the NAA1 service _to  :

' continue research11nto.effect of human joint replacement l

materials ~ leaching on the body, in particular in the case of' .

ath eart transplant patient who also has had artificial joint I replacement. Support by UW Hospital. 1 a

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44 samples,.24 less than 15 minutes, 40 sample hours, 3,25 W. irradiation space hours. Professor O. J.;Ginther and one graduate-student are using gold-as a stable tracer to trace 91: the fate of follicular fluid after' ovulation. Supported by UW Foundation.

?rofessor B. Bavister and one graduate student used NAA to measure effect of zinc and other metals on'spera motility.

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Wisconsin Dairy Cooperative (NAA) 23 samples, 11 less than 15 minutes, 26.75 sample hours, 4 irradiation space hours. Identification of, metallic inclusions in product and tracing origin.of the produces.

Industrial support.

4. OTHER MAJOR RESEARCH USE A neutron. radiography facility has been. constructed and is currently being calibrated and improved. . Forty-six hours of operation were devoted to this facility.during the year.

, S. CHANGES IN PERSONNEL, FACILITY AND PROCEDURES 1" Changes reportable under 10 CFR 50.59:are indicated in section E of this report.

During the year licensed operator Joe Giebel left the J -university for employment elsewhere.

There were no significant changes to the facility or procedures during the year except as noted in section E of this: report.

6. RESULTS OF SURVEILLANCE TESTS o

The program of inspection and testing of reactor components continues. Inspection of underwater components showed no deterioration or wear (but see note-under section,D v concerning transient rod failure).

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Ooeratina Period Startuos Mrs MW Hrs Pulses ,

FY'1989-90 148 626.43 609.83 32 Total'Present' Core 2121 7761.59 6264.62 437 Total-TRIGA Cores 4155 14,944.37- 11,334.40 1798

  • Excess reactivity of core I23-R12 increased by 0.04 percent reactivity during the' year to 4.30 percent.

C. EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN 8 AND INADVERTENT SCRAM 8 There were no emergency shutdowns during the year.- There.

were two scrams during the year distributed as follows: i 9/28/89 Scram from #2 picoammeter when a trainee (under j' the stress of an examination) withdrew a control  :

element instead of inserting it while trying to

-level power.

11/12/89 During full power operation, the core inlet temperature recorder ran upscale from 89'F. This instrument failure was due to a dirty slidewire.

D. MAINTENANCE  !

Routine' preventive maintenance continued.to maintain equipment, operability except for the failure _ detailed below. 4

'l Failure of Transient Control Rod Weld i During a routine startup on 22 May 1990, the operator noted instrument response to transient rod motion did not  ;

appear correct (and that the reactor should have been l critical at the indicated control rod position). She i

. notified the SRO, who after performing a subcritical. . ,

multiplication comparison of transient rod worth with another i control rod determined that the transient rod was not moving l with the drive. The reactor was secured for investigation of 1 the event.

The core was unloaded and the transient rod drive"was removed. Upon examination, it was apparent that the circumferential weld of the transient rod clad to the top l

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1 The three-element-bundle containing the guide tube was dissembled-and the transient rod was removed from the guide tube and' set aside to allow radioactivity.to decay before repairs are made.

The three-element bundle was reassembled.

A new,1 spare transient rod was installed on the extension shaft within the transient rod hold-down assembly.

The three-element bundle was reinstalled in the reactor core _ grid and the transient rod, hold-down, and drive were reassembled. Testing indicated normal behavior.

The core.was reloaded to the standard operating core on e 30 May 1990. The reactor was.taken critical and operated on  !

31 May_for. transient rod worth determination-and adjustment to assure fired worth was within the limits of technical specifications.

During the annual maintenance shutdown in January 1990,_

i no defects in appearance of the transient rod, had been I

discovered. .The transient: rod had been'in service since 19 April 1974 with'792-pulses.having been fired. Until June 1979,1the transient rod was fitted with a solid aluminum- , ~

follower-section, and'440 of the pulses were fired with the

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E. CRANGES IN THE FACILITY OR= PROCEDURE 8 REPORTABLE'UNDER 10CFR 50.59 Two reportable changes;took place during the year.

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the pool curb. This was reported pursuant to 50.54q by a letter dated May116, 1990.

Modi'fications made to the laboratory intrusion alarm were reported pursuant to 50.54.p.2 by a letter dated May 16, 1990.  ;

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F. RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL ,

1. SOLID WASTE ,

s No solid waste was shipped from the.facilit'y during the.

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2. LIQUID WASTE .

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There were two discharges of liquid radioactive waste to [

the sewer system during-the year. Concentrations discharged -

were--below MPC without considering dilution by the sewage discharge flow.. Table 1 details the discharges to the sewer system..  !

3. . PARTICULATE AND GASEOUS ACTIVITY RELEASED TO THE ATMOSPHERE ,

Table 2 presents information on stiac'k discharges during the year.

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TABLE 1 LIQUID WASTE TO SANITARY SEWER 11/21/89 6/12/90 Total Total pCl 10.43 4.36 14.79 GALLONS 1425 1450 2875 Co-57 (MPC Used - 2E 2) 9 01 0 0.36 0.36 pCl/ml 1.3E 7 3.3E 8 Fraction of MPC 6.5E4 1.6E4  ;

Co-58 (MPC Used = 4E-3) I pCl - 0.7 0.12 0.82 pCl/mi 1.3E 7 2.2E4 7.5E-8 Fraction of MPC 3.2E-5 5.5E 6 1.9E-6 Co40 (MPC Used = 1E-3) 9 01 1.37 1.29 2.66 j' pCi/ml 2.6E 7 2.4E-7 2.4E 7 Fraction of MPC 2.6E 4 2.4E-4 ' 2.4E-4 l 4

Cr 51 (MPC Used = SE 2)

'g 4 9C1 1.8 0.70 2.50 pCl/ml 3.2E 7 1.3E-7 2.3E 7 Fraction of MPC 6.4E-6 2.6E-6 4.6E-6 Mn-54 (MPC Used = 4E 3) pCl 1.36' O.43 1.79 pCl/mi 2.5E 7 7.8E-8 1.6E 7 Fraction of MPC 6.2E 5 2.0E 5 4.2E 5 -

Zn-65 (MPC Used =' 3E-3) pCl 5.2 1.46 6.66 pCl/rni 9.6E-7 2.7E 7 6.1 E-7 Fraction of MPC 3.2E 4 9.0E-5 2.0E-4 F :

Average concentration at point of release to sewer = 1.4E-6 pCl/ml.

Fraction of release limit without dilution = 5.1E-4.

. Average daily sewage flow for dilution = 2.37E4 gallons.

- Fraction of daily release limit including dilution = 1.9E-5.

Average yearly concentration = 4.5E 10 pCl/ml.

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f TABLE 2 EFFLUENT FROM STACK ,_

m 11. Particulate Activity There was no discharge of particulate, radioactivity'above

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- ActMty Instantaneous - Average Discharged Concentration Concentration Month - (Curles) pCl/ml x 10 pCi/mi x 10

E July 1989 0.137 2.1 0.0076 '  !

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Septamber 0.189 3.0 0.0109 u' W October - 0.199 2.1 0.0111 November 0.256 3.0 0.0147 December- 0.245 - 4.0 0.0137

January 1990 0.240- 3.0 - 0.0134

~ February 0.265 2.6 0.0164 March 0.269 3.2 0.0150

. April 0.261 3.2 0.0150' l'- May 0.130 2.8 0.0072;  ;

A June 0.250 4.0 0.0154'

TOTAL 2.613 4.0 (Maximum) 0.0125 (Average) i

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OF RADIATION EXPOSURE OF PERSONNEL (1 JULY 89 - 30 APRIL 90)-

No personnel received any significant radiation exposure- i for the above period. The vendor of TLD service (Teledyne Isotopes) proved to be unsatisfactory. .The vendor for the coming year will-be Landauer. The highest doses recorded-were 115 mrem whole body; 115 mrem skin dose;-and 41. mrem whole body neutron. Teledyne Isotopes has still not provided printouts of the May and June radiation dose reports.so those periods are not reflected in this report. No extremity dose is included because:the exposures reported are known'to be incorrect. l H. RESULTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEYS The environmental monitoring program at Wisconsin uses Eberline TLD area monitors located in' areas surrounding the reactor' laboratory. The table below indicates dose rates a person would have received if continuously.present in the indicated area for the full year. ,

Annual Dose Data -- Environmental Monitors Average Dose' Rate mrem / week Location 1989-90 Inside Wall of Reactor Laboratory 8.68 Inside: Reactor Laboratcry Stack 1.16

-Highest Dose outside Reactor Laboratory (Reactor-Lab roof.

entrance window: monitor adjacent to stone surface) 2.58 i

Highest Dose-in Occupied Nonrestricted Area (third floor classroom) Room 314 1.27 Average Dose in all Nonrestricted Areas (27 Monitor Points) 1.18 Lowest Dose Reported in Non-restricted Area .89

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W E.A. Venzke, "The Geology of Guffey Volcanic Center North of Guffey,

rark County, Colorado," in proceedings of First Keck Research' f Symposium in Geology, published at Beloit College (1988).

Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison- .

S. Padmanabhan, V. Brushaber, C.F. Anderson, and K. Thomas Record, i

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methylated-Analogs for Nelical DNA Determined by "Na and "N NNR,"

& y submitted to Biochemstry (July 1990), l S. Padmanabhan, M. Paulsen, C.F. Anderson, M.T. Record, Jr.,

" Cation DNA Interactions: NMR and Theoretical Studies of Ion

+ Distributions and Dynamics," in Monovalent Cations in Bioloaica_1 Systems, Chap. 14 (C. Pasternak, ed.) CRC Press,'pp. 321-338 (1990).

S. Padmanabhan, B. Richey, C.F. Anderson, and M. Thomas Record, Jr.,

@ "The Interactton of an N-methylated Polyamine Analog, Hexamethonium

(+2),withNaDNA: Quantitative "N and "Na NNR Relaxatton Rate

. Studies of Catton Exchange Process," Biochemistry 27, 4367-4376 (1988),

Civil and-Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

[ R.K. Ham, J. H1ppe, " Evaluation of Foundry Waste for Use in Nighway Construction," Master's Paper, UW Madison (July 1990).

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Traeger, " Evaluation of Foundry Waste for Use in Highway Construction," presented at the ASCE 1990 National Conference on

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Environmental Engineering, Arlington, VA (July 1990); and accepted '

. for presentation at the 1990 Waste Conference, Madison, Wisconsin-

a. (September 1990) and to be published in conference proceedings of ,

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,> Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota Ze'ev Herzog,. George Rapp, Jr., Ora Negbi, Editors, Excavations at -

4 Tel Nichal, University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota, and the Sonia 1n and Marco Nadler Institute of Archeology, Tel Aviv, 1989.

1 Material Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

$ ~J.C. Mishurda, "A Study of Titanium Aluminide Alloys, Rapid v Solidification, and Niobium Alloy Additions," Master's Thesis (December 1989).

i: . J.H. Perepezko, Y.A. Chang, L.E. Seitzman, J.C. Lin, N.R. Bonda, T.J. Jewett, J.C. Mishurda, "High Temperature Phase Stability in the o

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. Ti-Al-Nb System," Proceedings of Symposium on High Temperature L

" ' Aluminides and Intermetallics, ASM/TMS-AIME, Indiannapolis, Indiana (October 1989).

,- Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

l 0. McCammon, B.. Edwards, M. Juda, P. Plucinsky, and J. Zhang; and l3 ' NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center R. Kelley, . S. Holt, G. Madejski, S. Moseley and A. Szymkowiak,

" Thermal Detection of X-Rays," to appear in " Low Temperature Detectors" for Neutrinos and Dark Matter III (Edition Frontieres:

Gif sur Yvette Cedex), 1989.

Physics Department University of Wisconsin-Madison _  !

. Hensoon Rhee, " Characterizations of Finishes on Fabric.;," Ph.D. i Thesis, 1990.

Soil' Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison K-3. S. Kung, " Bromide Use as a Tracer in Soil- as influenced by l Plant Uptake," Soil Science Society of America:(July-August 1990).

X-J. S. Kung, "Is Bromide a Good Tracer?" presented at the American

' Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 15-20,1989).

P.E. McGuire, B. Lowery, and P.A. Helmke, " Potential-Sampling Error:

Metal Absorption on Vacuum Porous Cup Samplers," submitted-to Soi1 Science Society of America (August, 1990), 1 P.E^. McGuire, " Potential Sampling Error from Trace Metal Absorption on Vacuum Fore Water Samplers," presented to'the American Society of

-Agronomy Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 15-20,-1989)-

i R. Morrison, P.E. McGuire, " Chemical . and Hydraulic Li;n#.tations in the Use of Porous Cup Samples for Leachate Sampling, . presented to i the 12th Annual Madison Waste Conference, UW Extension, Madison, Wisconsin (September 20-21,1989).

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