Abklingkeller

English translation: Decay-in-storage room

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German term or phrase:	Abklingkeller
English translation:	Decay-in-storage room

23:50 Dec 30, 2013

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Tech/Engineering - Medical (general) / Radiation therapy equipment /space

German term or phrase: Abklingkeller

Der Abklingkeller I-01-11 muss funktionell erhalten bleiben.

The surrounding text is discussing what rooms will be used for therapy, waiting rooms, technical space, etc. There is no further definition or reference,.

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Local time: 10:06

Decay-in-storage room

Explanation:
The reference describes one in New York state.

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Hans-Jochen Trost
United States
Local time: 09:06

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Thank you. This is perfect. Was also then able to research the term on the web, and this is exactly what it is.
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Decay-in-storage room

Hans-Jochen Trost

Delay and decay facility

Yorkshireman

Low-level radiation decay chamber

Don Ullmann

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Wendy Streitparth

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peer agreement (net): +2

Decay-in-storage room

Explanation:
The reference describes one in New York state.

Reference: http://www.columbia.edu/~gh81/decayroom.html

Hans-Jochen Trost
United States
Local time: 09:06
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Thank you. This is perfect. Was also then able to research the term on the web, and this is exactly what it is.

10 hrs confidence:

Delay and decay facility

Explanation:
Delay and decay is a method for the storage of low-level radioactive wastes until the radiation level is low enough to dispose of the wastes by normal methods - incineration, landfill, as sewerage (liquid wastes).

You could add "basement" to the answer to make it a cellar.

"Three general principles are employed in the management of radioactive wastes:

concentrate-and-contain
dilute-and-disperse
delay-and-decay.

The first two are also used in the management of non-radioactive wastes. The waste is either concentrated and then isolated, or it is diluted to acceptable levels and then discharged to the environment. Delay-and-decay however is unique to radioactive waste management; it means that the waste is stored and its radioactivity is allowed to decrease naturally through decay of the radioisotopes in it."
Source: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Nuclear...

"Delay and Decay:

Medium activity radioactive waste and those with half-lives of less than a month may be stored. The storage room should be properly ventilated with an exhaust system conducted through a duct line to a roof top exit. The storage space should have lead shielding of appropriate thickness (10 HVL) to prevent radiation leakage. The radioactive waste should be stored for a minimum period of about 10 half lives when after decay only 0.1% of the initial activity remains. The waste is then monitored for the residual activity and if the dose limit is low it is disposed off as low activity solid or liquid waste. Most of the low and medium level radioactive hospital waste is of short half-life permitting this type of waste disposal."

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068798/

Example sentence(s):

Often the material remains radioactive only for short periods, and is held in a 'delay and decay' facility until it has the same level of radiation as natural background levels, before disposal as normal landfill.

Yorkshireman
Germany
Local time: 16:06
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 10

1 day 4 hrs confidence:

Low-level radiation decay chamber

Explanation:
"Chamber" is a good expression for the spatial aspect associated with radiation.

Don Ullmann
United States
Local time: 10:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

Reference comments

10 hrs

Reference

Reference information:
See as of page 15.

I would suggest (basement) decay storage facility

Reference: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1254_web.pd...

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 71

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