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Rapid determination of 239,240Pu, 238Pu, 241Am and 90Sr in high contaminated samples waste using combined SPE sorbents AnaLig® Pu-02, AnaLig® Sr-01 and DGA® Resin

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A rapid separation method has been developed which allows measurement of plutonium, americium and strontium isotopes in the high active sample from CBRN Training and Testing Centre in Zemianske Kostolany (Slovakia) with high chemical recoveries and effective removal of matrix interferences. This method uses different commercial products stacked AnaLig® Pu-02, AnaLig® Sr-01 and DGA® Resin cartridges from IBC Advanced Technologies and Eichrom Technologies. The method allows rapid separation of plutonium, strontium and americium using a single multi-stage column in the vacuum box (cartridge technology) with rapid flow rates to minimize sample separation time. The 239,240Pu, 238Pu and 241Am were determined by alpha spectroscopy, 90Sr was counted on TRICARB 2900 TR by Cerenkov counting of its progeny 90Y.

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This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-20-007105.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynska Dolina, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Silvia Dulanská, Igor Antalík, Miroslav Labaška & Boris Remenec

  2. Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care Constantine the Philosopher University, Kraskova 1, 949 74, Nitra, Slovakia

    Andrej Mátel

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Dulanská, S., Antalík, I., Labaška, M. et al. Rapid determination of 239,240Pu, 238Pu, 241Am and 90Sr in high contaminated samples waste using combined SPE sorbents AnaLig® Pu-02, AnaLig® Sr-01 and DGA® Resin. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 295, 1635–1639 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-012-2174-3

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