Published April 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

Radiochemical determination of uranium and radium isotope in natural water using liquid scintillation counter

  • 1. Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of). Geologic Environment Division

Description

234U, 238U, 226Ra, and 228Ra were analyzed in 14 Korean hot spring waters. Uranium was extracted with mixture of extractive scintillation cocktail containing HDEHP and 234U, 238U were analyzed with LSC. Radium isotopes were separated using Ba coprecipitation method and counted with LSC and 228Ra was also analyzed its daughter 228Ac with HPGe γ-detector. Among them 226Ra was ranged <0.01-0.155 Bq/L and 228Ra is below detection limit <0.1 Bq/L. And also, uranium content was ranged <0.01-49.7 μg/L and 234U/238U ratio was ranged 0.69-1.17. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Journal Volume
296
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 397-402
ISSN
0236-5731
CODEN
JRNCDM

Conference

Title
Methods and applications of radioanalytical chemistry. Part 1
Acronym
MARC IX
Dates
25-30 Mar 2012
Place
Kona, Hawaii (United States)

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