Rapid determination of actinides in asphalt samples

Maxwell, Sherrod L.; Culligan, Brian K.; Hutchison, Jay B.

doi:10.1007/s10967-013-2885-0

Title: Rapid determination of actinides in asphalt samples

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A new rapid method for the determination of actinides in asphalt samples has been developed that can be used in emergency response situations or for routine analysis If a radiological dispersive device (RDD), Improvised Nuclear Device (IND) or a nuclear accident such as the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in March, 2011 occurs, there will be an urgent need for rapid analyses of many different environmental matrices, including asphalt materials, to support dose mitigation and environmental clean up. The new method for the determination of actinides in asphalt utilizes a rapid furnace step to destroy bitumen and organics present in the asphalt and sodium hydroxide fusion to digest the remaining sample. Sample preconcentration steps are used to collect the actinides and a new stacked TRU Resin + DGA Resin column method is employed to separate the actinide isotopes in the asphalt samples. The TRU Resin plus DGA Resin separation approach, which allows sequential separation of plutonium, uranium, americium and curium isotopes in asphalt samples, can be applied to soil samples as well.

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Maxwell, Sherrod L. ^[1]; Culligan, Brian K. ^[1]; Hutchison, Jay B. ^[1]

Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River National Lab. (SRNL)

Publication Date:: Sun Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2014

Research Org.:: Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1169578

Report Number(s):: SRNL-STI-2013-00720
Journal ID: ISSN 0236-5731

Grant/Contract Number:: AC09-08SR22470

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 299; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0236-5731

Publisher:: Springer

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY

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                    Maxwell, Sherrod L., Culligan, Brian K., and Hutchison, Jay B. Rapid determination of actinides in asphalt samples.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Maxwell, Sherrod L., Culligan, Brian K., & Hutchison, Jay B. Rapid determination of actinides in asphalt samples.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-013-2885-0

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                    Maxwell, Sherrod L., Culligan, Brian K., and Hutchison, Jay B. Sun .  
"Rapid determination of actinides in asphalt samples".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-013-2885-0.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1169578.

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  title        = {Rapid determination of actinides in asphalt samples},

  author       = {Maxwell, Sherrod L. and Culligan, Brian K. and Hutchison, Jay B.},

  abstractNote = {A new rapid method for the determination of actinides in asphalt samples has been developed that can be used in emergency response situations or for routine analysis If a radiological dispersive device (RDD), Improvised Nuclear Device (IND) or a nuclear accident such as the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in March, 2011 occurs, there will be an urgent need for rapid analyses of many different environmental matrices, including asphalt materials, to support dose mitigation and environmental clean up. The new method for the determination of actinides in asphalt utilizes a rapid furnace step to destroy bitumen and organics present in the asphalt and sodium hydroxide fusion to digest the remaining sample. Sample preconcentration steps are used to collect the actinides and a new stacked TRU Resin + DGA Resin column method is employed to separate the actinide isotopes in the asphalt samples. The TRU Resin plus DGA Resin separation approach, which allows sequential separation of plutonium, uranium, americium and curium isotopes in asphalt samples, can be applied to soil samples as well.},

  doi          = {10.1007/s10967-013-2885-0},

  journal      = {Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry},

  number       = 3,

  volume       = 299,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Sun Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2014},

  month        = {Sun Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2014}

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