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Analytical X-Ray Safety at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

P. L. Wallace
P. L. Wallace*
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory University of California, Livermore, California 94550
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In this report, we summarize over 30 years of analytical x-ray safety history at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and describe the safety procedures used in the operation of analytical x-ray equipment in the laboratories managed by the LLNL Chemistry and Materials Science Department (C&MSD). The present safety control system, which was developed by users of the equipment, has proven effective in keeping incidents at LLNL to a rate consistent with the national average.

Type
XI. Analytical X-Ray Safety (Workshop Presentations)
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 30: Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 4-8, 1986 , 1986 , pp. 583 - 594
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1986

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Footnotes

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Work performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405- ENG-48.

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