Radiochemical Analysis

Radiochemical Analysis of Water

This report describes the methods and procedures used by the U.S. Geological Survey Tritium Laboratory to analyze natural waters for tritium activity. Samples having low activity are electrolytically enriched in cells with nickel and steel electrodes, and their tritium concentration is subsequently determined by liquid scintillation and gas phase counting techniques. Samples having high tritium...

Cadmium analysis by radiochemical neutron activation analysis.

Radiochemical neutron activation analysis (RNAA) has been routinely used at the National Bureau of Standards to analyze Cd in a variety of environmentally important matrices. The method used to separate Cd from other neutron-activated products is solvent extraction. Zinc diethyldithiocarbamate [Zn(DDC)2] in chloroform will quantitatively extract Cd from an aqueous solution over a pH range from ...

Radiochemical Techniques

Development of radiochemical analysis strategies for decommissioning activities.

Radioactive waste generated in decommissioning activities need be classified according to their radioactive content. The radiological information required by national authorities includes diverse alpha and beta emitters, which can only be determined after a radiochemical separation process. This paper presents the work on the development of radiochemical methods for the simultaneous separation ...

Britain A Radiochemical Renin Assay

1. A synthetic 3-([14C]valine)-labelled tetradecapeptide renin substrate was used to measure renin concentration. Renin liberated "4C-labelled angiotensin I, which was separated from the labelled substrate by paper chromatography. The conversion ofsubstrate into angiotensin I was quantitated by liquid-scintillation counting of radioactivity. 2. The rate of conversion of the substrate into angio...