BARC/PUB/2015/0314

 
 

Comparison of rapid liquid scintillation multivariate technique with conventional techniques for regular surveillance of water samples

 
     
 
Author(s)

Reddy, P. J.; Pulhani, V.; Bhade, S. P. D.; Kolekar, R. V.; Singh, R.; Jha, S. K.; Pradeepkumar, K. S.
(RSSD;HPD)

Source

Journal of Radioanalytical & Nuclear Chemistry, 2015. Vol. 303 (1): pp. 577-581

ABSTRACT

Liquid scintillation multivariate, gamma spectrometry and radiochemical separation techniques were used for estimating 3H, 90Sr and 137Cs in bore well samples. Using multivariate technique, 3H, 90Sr and 137Cs has been assayed in triple labeled samples. The same samples were also estimated by other routinely used techniques, like gamma spectrometry to estimate 137Cs, radio-chemical separation followed by subsequent counting using GM counter for 90Sr. The samples were distilled for 3H and its activity was estimated using liquid scintillation counting with the prepared calibration curve. Our results show that liquid scintillation multivariate is an easy and rapid method capable of estimating 3H, 90Sr and 137Cs in water samples with ±10 % deviation for 3H and ± 13 % deviation for 137Cs. However, in case of 90Sr the results obtained by conventional method and the simultaneous analysis by liquid scintillation multivariate technique are varying around ±29 %. This could be attributed to error introduced by matrix interference in the conventional analysis.

 
 
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