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Determination of soft X-ray emitting isotopes in radioactive liquid wastes of nuclear power plants

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The 59Ni and 55Fe radioisotopes were measured in radioactive wastes of some European nuclear power plants. A sample preparation method was developed that starts with the digestion in an oxygen atmosphere at an overpressure in a closed Berthelot calorimeter bomb. The detection limits for 59Ni and 55Fe were measured and calculated in the presence of high background activities from 60Co, 137Cs and 241Am isotopes.

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  1. Department of Chemical Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1111, Budapest, Budafoki út 8., Hungary

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Gresits, I., Tölgyesi, S. Determination of soft X-ray emitting isotopes in radioactive liquid wastes of nuclear power plants. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 258, 107–112 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026214310645

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