statistics because there's a lot of activity there.

Then, that's fine.

The bottom segment, you could count it for days and you are not going

to get that good accounting statistics, but you are safe because you don't
really need it because there is very little activity in that part and when
you fold in the total

activity,

that error

is not very important.

problem is, we don't know what segment it comes from.

The

Only DRI knows this,

so we have to send the results to DRI and they look at their master log
book to see where it comes from, and they fold in all of the errors and
say,

"Ah ha.

This is fine," or “Ah ha, we need more counting on, say, a

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middle sample somewhere," so they will get back to us and say (that's DRI,

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it looks like ORI), DRI tells the lab to recount sample such and such, and

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we'J] take that and recount it for a thousand minutes,

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back to computer analysis, and follows through the flow diagram in the same

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way.

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Is that ok?" and they will say “yes" or "no."

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are stored.

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Then we send another letter to DRI saying:

The

cesium

analysis

is

nice

in

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always have that dirt, no matter what.

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if you like.

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that

it's

and then it goes

"This is our new value.
If it's okay, the samples

nondestructive.

You'l]

You can count it hundreds of times

The plutonium is different.

A word about turnaround time.

If we have 100 sites to be analyzed and

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each site has four segments, that's four hundred samples to be analyzed for

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cesium.

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tor days for the cesium and if you add in an extra 50% for QA, duplicate

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samples, split samples, whatever DRI wants to send in, plus some time for

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computer down-time, detector down-time, that gives you 150 detector days.

We can do essentially four a day per detector.

That's 100 detec-

A 1,000-minute count takes up an

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Now you also have 1,000-minute counts.

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entire detector day effectively, and it's hard to know how many of these we

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will need.

An initial estimate might be 20% of the samples may need to be

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