Bulk Analysis of Environmental Swipe Samples
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Bulk analysis of environmental swipe samples taken within nuclear installations as part of routine IAEA inspections has proven to be a very sensitive analytical technique. The combination of chemical separations under very clean conditions with highly sensitive mass spectrometric measurements assists in the identification and characterization of uranium and plutonium signatures at ultratrace levels. The method has been applied at the IAEA’s Safeguards Analytical Laboratory in Seibersdorf, as well as many of the Network Laboratories. SAL’s Clean Laboratory Unit provides with its class-100 environment the required cleanliness to achieve unsurpassed analytical sensitivity.
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