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you, by its sound, when there is no more material leaving on the separation
operation.

We send the coarse fraction right off to storage (REECo 86) as indi- |

_cated on the flow diagram at the end of the three ball-millings.

We con-

: solidate the less than five hundred micron fraction into as few cans as we
‘

wif

tan comfortably homogenize.

The homogenizing is done by ball-milling the

can that’has its maximum content a few minutes until we get homogenization.
At the present time we are adding five hundred milliliters of soil to
the counting.bottle.

The bottles go to the Test Site and are put on a

10 automatic sample ‘changer (REECo 87).

In the rubber glove is a vibratory

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spatula which has_ been one of the most useful tools for transferring mate-

12

rials and for cleaning up:screens and doing various odd jobs.

13

We make up a 200-gram-compos ite soil specimen for the leaching process

14

in radiochemistry and I have.aiready indicated that we need the collabora-

15

tion of DRI

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have accomplished what the collecttaigand processing set out to do.

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us, we stil) have an important waysto-go and that is cleaning up al) of

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the hand tools, the screens, the pans and covers that we have contaminated

19

with dust along the way.

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as it goes on, you'll) notice that you don't:see dust coming from the opera-

21

tions.

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operation.

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detergent

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initials or pictures of our family on the surfaee- ofthe pan for the

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screen.

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did it, we still ended up with a film (REECo 88).

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cleaner and no longer have film on our equipment.

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We

in getting the proper_specimens combined.

have

been

At this point we
For

If you come intoveka lab and watch the processing

very

concerned

about "eliminating

dust

from

our

When we started out we would washall of the equipment with
in

the sink,

then

dry

it,

and found that we could draw our

It didn't really matter how much brushing we did or how long we

Wé-went to the sonic

The equipment comes from the sonic cleaner, gets a water rinse, goes

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