Design and performance of an automated radionuclide separator: Its application on the determination of 99Tc in groundwater
Description
A modular automated radionuclide separator for 99Tc (MARS Tc-99) has been developed for the rapid and reproducible separation of technetium in groundwater samples. The control software of MARS Tc-99 was developed in the LabView programming language. An automated radiochemical method for separating 99Tc was developed and validated by the purification of 99mTc tracer solution eluted from a commercial 99Mo/99mTc generator. The chemical recovery and analytical time for this radiochemical method were found to be 96±2% and 81 min, respectively. - Highlights: • Design and performance of an automated radionuclide separator for 99Tc are presented. • A control software developed in the LabView is given in detail. • An automated radiochemical method for separating 99Tc is presented. • The automated separator is validated by the purification of 99mTc tracer solution
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2013.03.080Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.apradiso.2013.03.080;
- PII
- S0969-8043(13)00170-X;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Applied Radiation and Isotopes
- Journal Volume
- 81
- Journal Page Range
- p. 57-61
- ISSN
- 0969-8043
- CODEN
- ARISEF
Conference
- Title
- 6. international conference on radionuclide metrology - Low level radioactivity measurement techniques
- Acronym
- ICRM-LLRMT'12
- Dates
- 17-21 Sep 2012
- Place
- Jeju Island (Korea, Republic of)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45112553
- Subject category
- S07: ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTER CODES; GROUND WATER; MOLYBDENUM 99; RADIOCHEMISTRY; SOLUTIONS; TECHNETIUM; TECHNETIUM 99
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CHEMISTRY; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DISPERSIONS; ELEMENTS; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; METALS; MIXTURES; MOLYBDENUM ISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; REFRACTORY METALS; TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; WATER; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.