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News Release
ORTEC, together with their Joint Venture partner in Japan (SEGG),
announces the winning of the contract to supply the K-Edge Densitometer measuring
instrument for the pilot phase of the nuclear fuel recycling project at Japanese Nuclear
Fuels Ltd (JNFL) in Tokai, Japan.
OAK RIDGE, TN, September 22, 2000– This unit, to be supplied to the prime contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will be
built and tested by PerkinElmer Instruments in conjunction with staff of the Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico.
The unit uses technology developed at LANL and exclusively licensed to ORTEC.
The K-Edge Densitometer is an instrument that enables precise measurements of nuclides
of Plutonium and Uranium to be made on the dissolver solution at the input to a nuclear
fuel reprocessing facility. Such measurements are necessary to support the Nuclear
Safeguards program operated in Japan.
ORTEC supplies solutions to support Safeguards and Nuclear Fuel Processing programs,
and is a licensee of several technologies and products developed by leading National Labs
in the United States. As well as licensed product, a wide range of products developed
internally for these applications is also available from ORTEC.
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