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A rapid and accurate method for the determination of strontium-90 in environmental soil

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A rapid and accurate method for the determination of90Sr in environmental soil has been developed; the procedure includes soil leaching by hydrochloric acid, oxalate precipitation, decontamination from210Bi, separation by HDEHP extraction chromatography column, yttrium oxalate precipitation and β-counting. The interference of210Bi was found and studies have been made for the decontamination of90Y from210Bi by Bi2S3 precipitation giving a decontamination factor of 1.05·103. The analytical results obtained by the improved rapid method for 12 soil samples were comparable to that obtained by a previous method within a relative error of 20%. Studies of vertical distribution of90Sr in an environmental soil profile have shown that 90% of the90Sr deposits in the 30 cm surface soil of the earth with a highest concentration of 3.40 Bq/kg. When 50 g soil was analyzed, the yield of yttrium was 73±17% with a detection limit of 0.26 Bq/kg.

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Guogang, J. A rapid and accurate method for the determination of strontium-90 in environmental soil. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 185, 255–264 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02041299

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