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This paper presents a rapid and quantitative radiochemical separation method for the Pu, Am and Cm isotopes with an anion exchange resin and a TRU resin. After the Pu isotopes were purified with an anion exchange resin method and the Am and Cm isotopes were purified with the TRU resin method, micro-coprecipitation method was applied for an alpha-source preparation. The activity concentrations and activity ratios for the Pu, Am and Cm isotopes in a radioactive sample were measured by radiation counting methods such as an alpha-spectrometry and a liquid scintillation counting as well as by a mass spectroscopic method such as a thermal ionization mass spectrometry.
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Lee, M.H., Jeon, Y.S. & Song, K. Determination of activity concentrations and activity ratios of plutonium, americium and curium isotopes in radioactive waste samples. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 280, 457–465 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-008-7442-x
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