Neutron activation analysis without multi-element standards

The paper shows how, from the neutron irradiation of multi-element standards, one can derive neutron flux parameters for the irradiation position and, at the same time, greatly improve knowledge of nuclear data parameters, such as thermal cross sections, resonance integrals and gamma ray emission probabilities, for the nuclides concerned. It is then shown how the resulting neutron flux parameters and nuclear data parameters can be used to carry out neutron activation analysis without further irradiation of multi-element standards. The technique is applied to the analysis of Chinese geochemical reference material. (author) 31 refs.; 7 tabs