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Research
On the Road again...
 It
was a busy spring for Jim
Navratil, professor of
environmental engineering and science (EES), and the pace only quickens
this summer. Navratil spent 11 days in Antarctica, where he joined
nuclear scientists from Argentina, Australia and Russia. The group was working on an environmental expedition at Vernadsky
Station, a Ukranian base performing upper atmosphere studies. Work
at this base was instrumental in discovering the hole in the ozone.
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Jim Navratil, professor
of environmental engineering and science, pals around with
the locals on his environmental expedition to Antarctica this
spring. |
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This
summer, Navratil and an EES graduate student will spend several
months at the Safeguards Analytical Laboratory (SAL) at Seiborsdorf, Austria. The SAL has awarded a contract to Clemson to develop and improve
certain radiochemistry separation methods used in analysis of radionuclides
in safeguard samples. The laboratory, part of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, is an arm of the United Nations that helps
monitor the nuclear ambitions of 145 nations. It analyzes up to
2,000 samples of nuclear materials and 500 environmental samples
a year. The SAL mission is to analyze clues of chemistry and physics
to verify that states are meeting their peaceful atomic pledges
and not secretly making deadly weapons.
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