Authors: JungSuk Oh Phillip E Warwick Ian W Croudace SangHan Lee
Publish Date: 2013/05/21
Volume: 298, Issue: 1, Pages: 353-359
Abstract
A straightforward and rapid method has been developed for the determination of 241Pu activities Pu is chemically separated from the sample purified and electrodeposited to produce a source for alpha spectrometric determination of 238Pu and 239240Pu Pu is stripped from the disc with concentrated nitric acid and extracted into trioctylphosphine oxide TOPO/toluene The organic extract is then mixed directly with commercial liquid scintillation cocktail without any further purification procedures and the sample counted on a Wallac 1220 Quantulus liquid scintillation counter LSC 241Pu activity is estimated via the 242Pu yield monitor acquired by alpha spectrometry measurement Experimental results for the performance testing of a lowlevel liquid scintillation spectrometer and the data for the evaluation of the method using standard reference materials are presented
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