Applied Fundamentals cont'd

DOE-HDBK-1203-97

Instruction should provide technical staff trainees with the requisite knowledge of nuclear

facility chemistry to explain the following:

Types of corrosion and methods of corrosion control

Basics of radiochemistry

Terms such as conductivity, dissolved solids, dissolved oxygen, silica,

chlorides, and fluorides

Principles of ion exchange and water treatment

Chemical effects of boron

Chemistry limits and their bases

Potential chemical contaminants from maintenance activities

Chemistry indications of a degraded core/process

Process chemistry

Conversion of uranyl nitrate to uranium hexafluoride

Fluorine generation and disposal

Properties of uranium hexafluoride

Reduction of uranium trioxide to uranium dioxide

Plutonium purification by ion exchange

Ion exchange equipment

Purposes and uses of fluidized beds in fuel processing

Purposes and uses of extraction systems and denitrators.

Instruction should provide technical staff trainees with the requisite knowledge of materials

sciences to explain the following:

Facility materials selection and applications

bases for material selection

limitations of materials used

applications of materials

characteristics of brittle fracture

minimum pressurization temperature

nil ductility transition temperature