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A new method of analysis of the efficiency of four filters of MnO2 in series which takes into account the reactions induced in plutonium by the sorbent is described. The system of differential equations describing the behaviour of plutonium in water as it passes through the filters is solved and the parameters of the filters are determined for a best fitting of the solutions corresponding to the experimental uncertainties. The method is checked by numerical simulation and then applied to water solutions with a known plutonium concentration and to some experimental results given by other authors. In all occassions the results are consistent with the possibility of determining the contents of plutonium in sea and continental waters with uncertainties of the order of 10%.
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Crespo, M.T., Arcos, J.M.L., Granados, C.E. et al. On the concentration and determination of plutonium in natural waters by adsorption on MnO2 filters. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 130, 99–110 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02037704
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