one could go through a hundred samples in a period of a week or two as
opposed to a longer time period, and I'l] furnish the reference later.
CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
DR. MILLER:

Thank you, sir.

I want to talk for a very few minutes on what you might

call the flow of information through the soil

analysis procedure and to

indicate where the QA samples will come in.

Beginning at the top of the page (FM-3) ORI as sort of a broker will
combine the QA soil samples from EML with the prepared samples from REECo,
renumber them, and send them through the soil preparation phase.
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After the

soil preparation, drying, ball-milling and sieving is completed, then the

ll. 700- gram aliquot will be drawn for gamma analysis and the numbers that are
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put on the samples by the

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numbers and they will carry straight through the gamma analysis and the

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results will come back to DRI where we will decode and decide whether the

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precision criterion was met.

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recounted at EML to check for bias.

After that decision is made, we will

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decide whether that particular soil

sample is going to be submitted for

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plutonium analysis and that's not a ORI responsibility, but it's going to

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be a group responsibility.

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storage.

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essentially,

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sample.

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tory number and those samples will be blended with QA Pu samples from EML

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and sent for plutonium analysis.

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remaining samples will be sent to storage.

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quality assurance procedure using EML and it will check for both bias and

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precision and also for contamination, the cross-contamination of the sam-

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ples because blanks will be sent through.

If so,
means

initial brokering will be laboratory analysis

A certain percentage of the samples will be

If not, the remaining sample will be sent to

we'll do the preparation for plutonium analysis which,
drawing

another

200-gram

aliquot

from

the

remaining

That sample will be relabeled with a different chemistry labora-

Again the data will be decoded and the

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This is basically the external

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