[NewCandle] further adventures of pixie 23

[Jones Beene]

Nick - One loose end - you really need to know the exact alloy composition
of the foil. Maybe you do know it. 

However, this sounds most like radon gas getting trapped in the swollen open
end, if I understand the dynamics correctly; and the foil would not be
involved at all unless it had some lithium content.

Radon is a strong alpha emitter (6 MeV) and the secondary gammas would be
expected to be strong. The half life is from seconds to days and therefore
about one to 100 trillion times more radioactive than the Uranium (in terms
of counts per microgram), so if Radon gas concentrates in an area of the
foil - that would account for the high reading.

J.

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Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [NewCandle] further adventures of pixie 23

Hi Keith and all,

Yesterday, I decided to begin pulling down and sequestering the different
components of the pixie bucket system.

I pulled the foil rolls and set them on a draining and drying towel.
Following this, I made a thorough survey of the liquid in the bucket from
all positions, particulary to see if there was indeed U residue settling out
as an oxide at the bottom.

This didn't seem to be the case - there was no difference in readings from
any direction for a given spacing, plastic intervening or no.  The liquid in
the bucket at a couple of cm spacing was a decent isotropic 200 to 300cpm.

I allowed the rolls to dry out overnight.  This morning, I looked at a few
(there are six for a pixie bucket).  Now keep in mind that the one end of a
roll is sawed off, and thus the turns are crushed and "swaged" over from the
saw blade.  So effectively, there is an open end and a sort-of closed end to
each roll.

At 1cm spacing from any position at the roll OD side, I saw 2000 to 3000cpm.
At the sawed end, the reading was nearly the same.  However, at the "open
end" where one still sees the (now slightly swollen) turns of foil, we get a
reading of around 10,000cpm.  If one turned on one's "gamma vision" it would
be like a flashlight with a stubby beam, I guess.

I took multiple wraps of Al foil and placed them around the mica window of
the GM tube.  Essentially no attenuation of any reading anywhere, until one
gets to 4 turns or wraps, at which point there may have been a very slight
dropoff - no more than maybe 10%.

Thus I have to say that all of these fun and games are gamma or strong Xray.
Beta component seems negligible.


So I am still scratching my head over the initial rise on solution
infiltration, as seen from outside the bucket.

nr

> HI Nick,
> 
> Things are finally stabilizing here, perhaps this winter
> will find
> me doing some more serious research in between cooking up
> the next
> software release.
> 
> As regards your pixie. It should come as no surprise that
> the
> rolls are hot. You must be displacing U from the solution,
> as
> we anticipated. I suspect that is not a stable condition,
> and
> the amount of U in solution vs U plated is in a dynamic
> relation.
> If the temperature is changing, the displacement reaction
> will
> either increase or decrease ( hot or cold respectively ).
> Late
> evening reading would have occurred over the heat of the
> day,
> so should be larger than morning reading. If the diurnal
> variation
> is continuing, draw out a foil roll at each time, and see
> if
> the roll itself is hotter at the evening point.
> 
> Also, look at the bottom of the solution tank. Displaced U
> may be collecting
> there after being shed from the Al foil.
> 
> K.




      

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