ENVIRONMENT
americium from
ie exhaust stack is
th and 36cm in
an effluent flow of
litres/min. Our
——
+
air
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The LLNL Transuranic
oo) o “Aerosol Measurement
System (TAMS). The flow of air down
the sampling line is controlled by opening or closing the valve. The air passes
through the membrane filter at a rate of
Sampling
line
566 litres/min for a fixed period of time.
The filter is then drawn into the detector
chamber, and the chamber fs evacuated.
An LSE11 processor then analyzes the
alpha spectrum.
Membrane
filter
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