One of the goals of the Environmental Management Sciences Program is to support basic research addressing fundamental issues that may be critical to advancing the remediation of Department of Energy (DOE) sites nationwide. One critical area of this remediation is the need to monitor radiochemical consitituents in various areas, ranging from the containment of low and high-level radioactive waste to monitoring of contaminant plumes in subsurface water. Current methods of analysis are time consuming and hazardous at best, requiring lengthy sampling, preparation, anallysis, and data inerpretation. A better approach would be to use sensors to perform rapid, sensitive, and economic in situ analysis for various constituents of interest.
Revised: May 30, 2012 |
Published: May 19, 2005
Citation
Monk D.J., M.L. Stegemiller, S. Conklin, J.R. Paddock, W.R. Heineman, C.J. Seliskar, and T.H. Ridgway, et al. 2005.Spectroelectrochemical Sensor for Technetium: Preconcentration and Quantification of Technetium in Polymer Modified Electrodes. In ACS Symposium Series. Subsurface Contamination Remediation: Accomplishments of the Environmental Management Science Program, edited by E Berkey and T Zachry. 306-321. Washington Dc:American Chemical Society.PNNL-SA-38080.