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Evaluation of SR/ TEVA/ TRU triple stack for separation of activation products

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A rapid method to separate Ta, Po, Au, Pt, and W from a sample containing mixed fission and activation products was developed using three commercially available extraction chromatography resins stacked in series. When the separation was tested using all the target activation products, even those with short half-lives were measurable. Combining multiple extraction chromatography resin cartridges in tandem allows for multiple short-lived activation products to be separated from one sample addition without the complication of multiple steps.

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This work was sponsored by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters and by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development. We would like to thank the Radiological Processing Laboratory (RPL) service center at PNNL for gamma emission analysis data. PNNL is operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC05-76RL0-1830.

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    Staci Herman, Evan Warzecha, Riane Stene, Hilary Emerson, Dana Arbova, Caleb Allen, Nicolas Uhnak, Matthew RisenHuber, Brienne Seiner, Lori Metz & Chelsie Beck

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Herman, S., Warzecha, E., Stene, R. et al. Evaluation of SR/ TEVA/ TRU triple stack for separation of activation products. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 333, 2351–2360 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-024-09379-9

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