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A procedure for removing uranium, thorium, and potassium-40 microimpurities from a liquid organic scintillator based on linear alkylbenzene

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A procedure was developed for removing uranium, thorium, and potassium from a liquid organic scintillator based on linear alkylbenzene (LAB) by stripping with water. The volume ratio of the scintillator and water in the process should be no less than 1: 5. The attenuation length (L 420) of LAB after treatment with water does not change and is as high as 13.0 ± 1.8 m. The solubility of water in LAB and of LAB in water was determined to be 46 and 5.1 ppm, respectively.

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  1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow, 117312, Russia

    I. R. Barabanov, L. B. Bezrukov, A. V. Veresnikova, V. I. Gurentsov, G. Ya. Novikova & E. A. Yanovich

  2. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 28, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    V. P. Morgalyuk

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Original Russian Text © I.R. Barabanov, L.B. Bezrukov, A.V. Veresnikova, V.I. Gurentsov, V.P. Morgalyuk, G.Ya. Novikova, E.A. Yanovich, 2016, published in Radiokhimiya, 2016, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 49–54.

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Barabanov, I.R., Bezrukov, L.B., Veresnikova, A.V. et al. A procedure for removing uranium, thorium, and potassium-40 microimpurities from a liquid organic scintillator based on linear alkylbenzene. Radiochemistry 58, 52–58 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1066362216010082

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