[en] Study was made on the distillation spearation-curcumin spectrophotometric method, which is used for the analysis of steel. In this method, a sample is dissolved in sulfuric acid and ammonium sulfate, and the solution is distilled by adding methanol to separate boron, and boron is colorized by curcumin for spectrophotometric determination. In the direct spectrophotometric determination of boron in Nb-Zr alloys by the methylene blue or curcumin method, the effect of coexistent elements such as Nb and Ta must be eliminated by means of dilution or separation with phytin. However, this method enables of determine boron in the distilled and separated solution with curcumin by stipulating a fixed amount of sulfuric acid and ammonium sulfate to be used for dissolving the sample, regardless of Nb and Ta contents, without any precipitation being formed. The recovery experiment using 2.5% Nb-Zr alloy and the analysis of in-house standard samples and JAERI-Z₃ showed that this is a satisfactory analysis method. This procedure did not require any complex and skillful separating operation, and could shorten the analysis time in comparison with the phytin separation-methylene blue procedure. In addition, it can determine boron not less than 0.05 ppm, and is adequately applicable to the analysis with the specified value not more than 0.5 ppm for the advanced thermal reactor FUGEN. (Kobatake, H.)