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$alpha$ Counting of Plutonium Isotopes with Liquid Scintillators. Elimination of Errors, Due to Wall Adsorption of Plutonium; $alpha$-ZAHLUNG VON PLUTONIUM-ISOTOPEN MIT FLUSSIGSZINTILLATOREN. VERMEIDUNG VON FEHLERN, DIE VON EINER WAND-ADSORPTION DES PLUTONIUMS HERRUHREN

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4163310

Tri-n-octylphosphine oxide (TOPO) was found to be a suitable non- quenching complexing agent for application to internal liquid scintillation of Pu by eliminating the errors due to chemical wall-adsorption of hydrolized species of Pu-ions. The light yield and transmission properties of the (Dioxan + PPO + POPOP + Naphthalene + TOPO) liquid scintillator allow the use of conventional counting equipment as normally used with ZnS and Nal scintillation crystals. With such equipment counting plateaus with a slope of less than 0.1% per 100 V over tue best range are obtained. With low-noise equipment excellent precision for absolute alpha counting can be achieved. The scintillator mixes with samples of aqueous Pu-solutions containing considerable quantities of salts and with samples of organic Pu-solutions containing organic complexing agents of low volatility. Both these types of samples cause difficulty for counting plate techniques due to self-absorption. The liquid scintillation method described is therefore favorable in the analytical evaluation of solvent extraction experiments. (auth)

Research Organization:
Kernforschungsanlage. Institut fur Physikalische Chemie, Julich, Germany
NSA Number:
NSA-18-000266
OSTI ID:
4163310
Report Number(s):
JUL-127-PC
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English