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A chemical separation procedure using ionic liquid extraction for 59Fe and 55Fe quantification

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Quantifying the iron (Fe) isotopes 55Fe and 59Fe radiometrically can be difficult due to emission interferences or high spectral backgrounds in the presence of other activation products or fission products. The purpose of this work was to demonstrate a separation procedure for Fe activation product analysis for complex samples that contain either activated soil components or freshly produced fission products generated from HEU. The developed procedure herein described succesfully allowed for quantitative analysis of both 59Fe (by gamma spectroscopy) and 55Fe (by low-energy photon spectroscopy) with greater than 90 % Fe recovery.

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We would like to acknowledge the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development, for financial support. This manuscript has been authored by Battelle Memorial Institute under contract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830 with the U.S. DOE. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of the manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.

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  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99354, USA

    Samuel S. Morrison, Brienne N. Seiner, Tere A. Eggemeyer, Morgan M. Haney, Lori A. Metz, Shannon M. Morley, Nic E. Uhnak & Sue B. Clark

  2. Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, P.O. Box 644630, Pullman, WA, 99164-4630, USA

    Samuel S. Morrison, Zhicheng Zhang & Sue B. Clark

  3. Nuclear Radiation Center, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-1300, USA

    C. Corey Hines, Mathew D. King & Donald E. Wall

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Morrison, S.S., Seiner, B.N., Eggemeyer, T.A. et al. A chemical separation procedure using ionic liquid extraction for 59Fe and 55Fe quantification. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 307, 2479–2485 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4403-z

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