Open AccessIdentification and characterization of conservative organic tracers for use as hydrologic tracers for the Yucca Mountain site characterization project: Quality Assurance Project Plan, Revision 1; Quarterly progress report, October 1, 1993--December 31, 1993
Author(s) -
Klaus J. Stetzenbach
Publication year - 1993
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/140682
Subject(s) - quality assurance , audit , plan (archaeology) , identification (biology) , environmental science , sampling (signal processing) , water quality , tracer , quality (philosophy) , hydrology (agriculture) , geology , computer science , engineering , operations management , accounting , business , geotechnical engineering , paleontology , ecology , botany , external quality assessment , physics , filter (signal processing) , nuclear physics , computer vision , biology , philosophy , epistemology
The purpose of this work is to identify and characterize candidate conservative organic tracers for use as hydrologic tracers for experiments to be conducted at the Yucca Mountain C-well complex. During this quarter the main effort was directed towards rewriting the quality assurance program in preparation for a review and audit by the USGS. However, due to budget constraints the review and audit were not carried out. The tracer QA plan and standard operating procedures (SOPs) were revised and copies are included in the report. Instrumental problems were encountered and corrected with the addition of new integration and sample control software. In the sampling, there was an unexplained peak in the chromatograms of the tracers being tested in the light tuff. This was not correctable and these experiments will be repeated in the next quarter