Radioanalytical Chemistry Experiments

Principles for Radioanalytical Chemistry p. 1 Experiment 1 Practice in Pipetting and Weighing Samples for Radioactivity Counting p. 9 Experiment 2 Radiation Detection Instrument Calibration and Quality Assurance p. 14 Experiment 3 Determination of Gamma Ray Self-absorption in a KCl Sample p. 28 Experiment 4 Preparation of a Beta-particle Self-absorption Curve for 40K p. 33 Experiment 5 Preparation and Standardization of Carriers p. 39 Experiment 6 Preparation of 242Pu Tracer Solution p. 42 Experiment 7 Basic Radiochemical Separation Techniques: Precipitation, Solvent Extraction, and Ion Exchange p. 48 Experiment 8 Determination of Radium-226 and Radium-228 in Drinking Water p. 64 Experiment 9 Radiochemical Determination of Tritium in Water p. 77 Experiment 10 Determination of 131I in Water p. 83 Exercise 1 Modification of a Published Procedure for the Determination of Picocurie Concentrations of Iodine-131 in Milk p. 91 Experiment 11 Vegetation Sample Preparation for Radiochemical Analysis of Radio-Strontium Isotopes p. 94 Experiment 12 Determination of Radio-strontium Isotopes in Environmental Samples p. 101 Experiment 13 Determination of Radio-strontium in Water with a Strontium-specific Solid-phase Extraction Column p. 111 Experiment 14 Radiochemical Determination of Plutonium in Water By Ion Exchange Chromatographic Separation p. 117 Experiment 15 Radiochemical Determination of Plutonium in Water by Solvent Extraction p. 129 Exercise 2 Selection of a Method for the Radiochemical Determination of Plutonium in an Environmental Sample p. 134 Experiment 16 Gamma Ray Spectral Analysis of a Mixed-fission-product Solution p. 136 Experiment 17 Measurement of Uranium Isotopes by Mass Spectrometer p. 144 Appendices p. 150