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Welcome to the ANSTO Institutional Repository known as APO.

The APO database has been migrated to version 8.3. The functionality has changed, but the content remains the same.

ANSTO Publications Online is a digital repository for publications authored by ANSTO staff since 2007. The Repository also contains ANSTO Publications, such as Reports and Promotional Material. ANSTO publications prior to 2007 continue to be added progressively as they are in identified in the library. ANSTO authors can be identified under a single point of entry within the database. The citation is as it appears on the item, even with incorrect spelling, which is marked by (sic) or with additional notes in the description field.

If items are only held in hardcopy in the ANSTO Library collection notes are being added to the item to identify the Dewey Call number: as DDC followed by the number.

APO will be integrated with the Research Information System which is currently being implemented at ANSTO. The flow on effect will be permission to publish, which should allow pre-prints and post prints to be added where content is locked behind a paywall. To determine which version can be added to APO authors should check Sherpa Romeo. ANSTO research is increasingly being published in open access due mainly to the Council of Australian University Librarians read and publish agreements, and some direct publisher agreements with our organisation. In addition, open access items are also facilitated through collaboration and open access agreements with overseas authors such as Plan S.

ANSTO authors are encouraged to use a CC-BY licence when publishing open access. Statistics have been returned to the database and are now visible to users to show item usage and where this usage is coming from.

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    Accelerators for the Australian environment and heritage
    (Australian Nuclear Association, 1999-10-27) Tuniz, C
    Australian researchers have access to a variety of natural systems where records of the Earth's past environment have been stored. These archives include sediment cores, Antarctic ice, Tasmanian pine trees, rock surfaces, corals, etc. Each of these media contain information on past environmental conditions but the records must be carefully deciphered and compared with one-another. The AMS analysis of long-lived cosmogenic radionuclides is essential for providing absolute time scales for these natural archives. Other analytical methods based on high-energy ion interactions are well suited to characterise environmental and archaeological samples with high sensitivity. The use of ANSTO's accelerators in research programs related to the environment in the Australian region is reviewed.
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    The priorities for ANSTO
    (Australian Nuclear Associations, 1999-10-27) Garnett, HM
    As Australia's major centre of expertise in nuclear science, technology and its applications, ANSTO's priorities take account of the stated strategic and tactical needs of its various stakeholders, which in turn are considered as the Government (as owner), industry - including the health sector, the academic and research community and the public at large. Its priorities also take account of the opportunities perceived by its own staff in the light of the organisation's strengths, the activities of the international scientific, technology and industry community and a rapidly changing socioeconomic environment where environmental management and social accountability are becoming as important as fiscal responsibility and accountability.
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    Constant heating rate hot-pressing of titanate ceramics
    (Australasian Ceramic Society, 1998) Stewart, MWA; Perera, DS; Sorrell, CC
    Constant heating rate (CHR) hot-pressing is a fast and useful technique for comparing the sintering behaviour of powders, reactions occurring during consolidation and the effects of process changes. The features observed using CHR on the hot-pressing of anatase and reactive hot-pressing of Al2O3 and TiO2 to form Al2TiO5 are discussed.
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    Solubility control of actinide elements leached from Synroc in pH-buffered solutions
    (R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1992) Hart, KP; Glassley, WE; McGlinn, PJ
    Actinide-doped Synroc samples were leached in deionized water and buffered solutions (pH 2 to 10) under MCC-1 conditions at 70°C for 28 days. Leachates were filtered through 0.45 µm and colloid filters to determine the α-activity associated with colloids and particulates. The EQ3/6 thermodynamic package was used to calculate whether actinide solubility limits were affecting Synroc dissolution kinetics. For Pu, the solubility in all leachants, except the pH 2 buffer, appeared to control the dissolution kinetics, but for Np and Am, the dissolved actinides were below solubility limits in each case. To avoid Pu saturation effects in MCC tests on Synroc, shorter leaching times will have to be used. ©1992 R. Oldenbourg Verlag,.
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    Research reactor fuel - an update
    (Australian Nuclear Association, 2003-11-05) Finlay, MR; Ripley, MI
    In the two years since the last ANA conference there have been marked changes in the research reactor fuel scene. A new low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel, 'monolithic' uranium molybdenum, has shown such promise in initial trials that it may be suitable to meet the objectives of the Joint Declaration signed by Presidents Bush and Putin to commit to converting all US and Russian research reactors to LEU by 2012. Development of more conventional aluminium dispersion UMo LEU fuel has continued in the meantime and is entering the final qualification stage of multiple full sized element irradiations. Despite this progress, the original 2005 timetable for UMo fuel qualification has slipped and research reactors, including the RRR, may not convert from silicide to UMo fuel before 2007. The operators of the Swedish R2 reactor have been forced to pursue the direct route of qualifying a UMo lead test assembly (LTA) in order to meet spent fuel disposal requirements of the Swedish law. The LTA has recently been fabricated and is expected to be loaded shortly into the R2 reactor. We present an update of our previous ANA paper and details of the qualification process for UMo fuel.