Inline gamma-spectrometry of fission product elements after rapid high-pressure ion chromatographic separation

Emilie K. Fenske; Benjamin D. Roach; Cole R. Hexel; David C. Glasgow; Ian R. Stewart; John D. Partridge; Joseph M. Giaquinto

doi:10.1007/s10967-020-07103-x

Inline gamma-spectrometry of fission product elements after rapid high-pressure ion chromatographic separation

Emilie K. Fenske, Benjamin D. Roach, Cole R. Hexel, David C. Glasgow, Ian R. Stewart, John D. Partridge, Joseph M. Giaquinto

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Abstract

Analysis of irradiated material shortly after irradiation can be non-trivial due to highly radioactive activation and fission isotopes increasing dead time in gamma-ray detection systems, often requiring a “cooling-period” between receipt of a sample and the subsequent analysis. A direct separation–detection method has been developed combining ion chromatography and inductively coupled mass spectrometry for rapid, low-level analysis of fission products; it cannot, however, detect certain short-lived species below the detection limit of the system. Here we report the implementation of an inline gamma-ray detector, which was added post-separation, pre-analysis, to test the quality and utility of elementally-isolated gamma-ray spectroscopy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	759-771
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume	324
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07103-x
State	Published - May 1 2020

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This manuscript has been authored in part by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( https://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ).” This submission has been authored by a contractor of the U.S. Government under Contract No. DE AC05-00OR22725. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for the U.S. Government purposes. This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Post-Master’s Research Associate Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. This submission has been authored by a contractor of the U.S. Government under Contract No. DE AC05-00OR22725. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for the U.S. Government purposes. This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Post-Master?s Research Associate Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.

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U.S. Government	DE-AC05-00OR22725
U.S. Department of Energy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

Keywords

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Inline gamma-ray detection
Ion chromatography
Irradiation
Rapid isotope analysis

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Inline gamma-spectrometry of fission product elements after rapid high-pressure ion chromatographic separation

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