Published October 2010 | Version v1
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40K determination to estimate the concentration of total potassium

Creators

  • 1. Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Unidad Academica de Estudios Nucleares, Calle Cipres No. 10, Fracc. La Penuela, 98068 Zacatecas (Mexico)

Description

Total potassium concentration has been determined by measuring the 1.46 MeV gamma ray emitted during 40K decay. In nature there are three K isotopes: 39K, 41K, and 40K, this last is radioactive with a half life of 109 years. In nature, 40K is in 0.0117% and this is measured in order to estimate the total amount of potassium. Potassium plays and comporting role in growing and reproduction of animals and plants. Due to decay properties and because it is essential to humans 40K is important for radiological protection. Due to secular equilibrium the γ-ray emission rate of 40K is proportional to total 40K concentration and can be used to estimate the total amount of K. In this work a set of 40K calibrating sources has been prepared and was utilized with NaI (Tl)-based spectrometric γ-ray system to measure the 40K concentration in several samples; with this information total K was evaluated. (Author)

Availability note (English)

Available from the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Centro de Informacion y Documentacion, 52750 Ocoyoacac, Estado de Mexico (MX), e-mail: javier.ortega@inin.gob.mx; claudio.fernandez@inin.gob.mx

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Mexican Nuclear Society
Imprint Place
Mexico, D. F. (Mexico)
ISBN
978-607-95174-1-0
Imprint Pagination
4 p.

Conference

Title
an environmentally sound option
Acronym
21. Mexican Nuclear Society Meeting; 17. Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference. Nuclear energy
Dates
24-30 Oct 2010
Place
Cancun (Mexico)

INIS

Country of Publication
Mexico
Country of Input or Organization
Mexico
INIS RN
42074835
Subject category
S07: ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
DATA; DECAY; EMISSION; EQUILIBRIUM; GAMMA RADIATION; HALF-LIFE; HUMAN POPULATIONS; MEV RANGE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM 39; POTASSIUM 40; POTASSIUM 41; RADIATION PROTECTION; SODIUM IODIDES
Descriptors DEC
ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; ALKALI METALS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY RANGE; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; INFORMATION; INORGANIC PHOSPHORS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IODIDES; IODINE COMPOUNDS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; METALS; NANOSECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PHOSPHORS; POPULATIONS; POTASSIUM ISOTOPES; RADIATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; STABLE ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

Optional Information

Funding organization
Korea Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (Korea, Republic of); Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems Inc. (United States); Westinghouse-Toshiba (United States); Hitachi, Ltd. (United States); Nukem (Germany); Iberdrola, Ingenieria y Construccion (Spain); NAC International (United States); Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Korea, Republic of); Grupo IAI (Mexico)