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Fast analysis of gross alpha with a new plastic scintillation resin
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Radionuclides analysis is a complex task, with high time and economic costs. In decommissioning activities and environmental monitoring, it is very evident, in which, to obtain an appropriate information, it is necessary to perform as many analyses as possible. The number of these analyses can be reduced using screening gross alpha or gross beta parameters. However, the currently used methods cannot give an answer as fast as it would be desired and, moreover, more than 50% of the results reported in the interlaboratory exercises fall outside the acceptance range.
This work presents the development of a new material and method to gross alpha activity determination using a plastic scintillation resin (PSresin) in drinking and river water samples. A specific procedure was developed involving a new PSresin (using bis-(3-trimethylsilyl-1-propyl)-methanediphosphonic acid as an extractant) that is selective for all actinides, radium and polonium. Quantitative retention and 100% detection efficiencies were obtained at pH 2 with nitric acid. PSA value of 135 was used for α/β discrimination. Eu was used to determine or estimate retention in sample analyses. The method developed can measure, in less than 5 h from the reception of the sample, the gross alpha parameter with quantification errors comparable or even lower to those obtained with conventional methods.
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GIMÉNEZ GUERRA, Isaac, BAGÁN NAVARRO, Héctor, TARANCÓN SANZ, Alex. Fast analysis of gross alpha with a new plastic scintillation resin. _Analytica Chimica Acta_. 2023. Vol. 1248, núm. 1-10. [consulta: 24 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0003-2670. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/217702]