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Title: Rapid activation product separations from fission products and soil matrixes

Abstract

We report that a rapid method for the separation and qualitative analysis of several neutron activation products ( 198Au, 192Ir, 72Ga, 51Cr, 191/195m/197Pt, 54Mn, 57Co, and 59Fe) from fission products and soil matrixes has been developed. Analytes were isolated within 20 h using ion exchange chromatography. After separation, the activation products were characterized by γ-spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy. Validation experiments demonstrated versatility of the method, showing that the activation products could be isolated from fresh fission products and other contaminants associated with complex soil matrixes.

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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
OSTI Identifier:
1550740
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1558968
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-18-31763
Journal ID: ISSN 0236-5731
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry; Journal ID: ISSN 0236-5731
Publisher:
Springer
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; Activation products; Fission products; Rapid separation; ICP-OES; activation products; fission products; rapid separation

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Bennett, Kevin T., Kozimor, Stosh A., Manard, Benjamin T., Mocko, Veronika, Pacheco, Susan D., Schake, Ann R., Wu, Ruilian, and Olson, Angela C. Rapid activation product separations from fission products and soil matrixes. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1007/s10967-019-06678-4.
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Bennett, Kevin T., Kozimor, Stosh A., Manard, Benjamin T., Mocko, Veronika, Pacheco, Susan D., Schake, Ann R., Wu, Ruilian, & Olson, Angela C. Rapid activation product separations from fission products and soil matrixes. United States. doi:10.1007/s10967-019-06678-4.
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Bennett, Kevin T., Kozimor, Stosh A., Manard, Benjamin T., Mocko, Veronika, Pacheco, Susan D., Schake, Ann R., Wu, Ruilian, and Olson, Angela C. Mon . "Rapid activation product separations from fission products and soil matrixes". United States. doi:10.1007/s10967-019-06678-4.
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@article{osti_1550740,
title = {Rapid activation product separations from fission products and soil matrixes},
author = {Bennett, Kevin T. and Kozimor, Stosh A. and Manard, Benjamin T. and Mocko, Veronika and Pacheco, Susan D. and Schake, Ann R. and Wu, Ruilian and Olson, Angela C.},
abstractNote = {We report that a rapid method for the separation and qualitative analysis of several neutron activation products (198Au, 192Ir, 72Ga, 51Cr, 191/195m/197Pt, 54Mn, 57Co, and 59Fe) from fission products and soil matrixes has been developed. Analytes were isolated within 20 h using ion exchange chromatography. After separation, the activation products were characterized by γ-spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy. Validation experiments demonstrated versatility of the method, showing that the activation products could be isolated from fresh fission products and other contaminants associated with complex soil matrixes.},
doi = {10.1007/s10967-019-06678-4},
journal = {Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {8}
}
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