Waste tanks, Hanford site radioactive storage

Recently, a Raman probe has been designed for a cone penetrometer for studying underground storage tanks at the Department of Energy site in Hanford [143]. These tanks contain a mixture of chemicals and radioactive waste and, with in-tank characterization of such mixtures, significant reduction in personnel exposure, analysis time, and cost is achieved relative to laboratory analysis. RS has been shown to be well suited for detecting many of the chemicals contain within the tanks [43,144,145]. For example, Marston have detected and identified nitrite (NO2), nitrate (N03 ), sulfate (SO4 ), chromate (CrO ),... 

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