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The National Bureau of Standards has, for the past five years, been developing natural-matrix, environmental-level radioactivity Standard Reference Materials in large quantities to be available to users over a ten year time period. These materials have been found to be useful for the evaluation of radiochemical methods and analysis, as interlaboratory comparison materials, and as quality assurance materials. To date, six Standard Reference Materials have been issued: River Sediment, Human Lung, Human Liver, Rocky Flats Soil-1, Freshwater Lake Sediment, and Peruvian Soil. The concentrations of twenty radionuclides have been certified in these materials.
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Inn, K.G.W. The National Bureau of Standards fresh water lake sediment environmental-level radioactivity standard reference material. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 115, 91–112 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02041979
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