Integration of a hyphenated HPIC-ICPMS protocol for the measurement of transplutonium isotopic mass distributions for 252Cf campaigns at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Benjamin D. Roach; Joseph M. Giaquinto; Tamara J. Keever

doi:10.1007/s10967-018-6072-1

Integration of a hyphenated HPIC-ICPMS protocol for the measurement of transplutonium isotopic mass distributions for ²⁵²Cf campaigns at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Benjamin D. Roach, Joseph M. Giaquinto, Tamara J. Keever

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Abstract

Rapid measurement of transplutonium isotopic mass distributions during ²⁵²Cf production campaigns at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a critical need. Mass measurements for the isotopes of plutonium, americium, curium, and californium are routinely requested to support the α-hydroxy-isobutyrate runs for the purification and recovery of the heavy curium target material and final ²⁴⁹Bk, ²⁵²Cf, and ²⁵⁴Es enriched isotope products. This paper presents the integration of an online high-pressure ion chromatography inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry technique together with the protocol and chemistry that allows for rapid baseline separation and direct quantification of the transplutonium elemental concentrations and isotopic compositions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	407-413
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume	318
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6072-1
State	Published - Oct 1 2018

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This manuscript has been authored by UT–Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy. gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). The authors would like to acknowledge the ORNL Isotope program, in particular the californium-252 program manager Julie Ezold, for supporting the method development and presentation of this work. The authors would also like to thank Jeff Delashmitt and Doug Canaan from the Transuranium Analytical Laboratory for useful discussions and providing the radiochemical data for comparison purposes. This manuscript has been authored by UT?Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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U.S. Department of Energy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory	DE-AC05-00OR22725

Keywords

Berkelium
Californium
Einsteinium
High pressure ion chromatography
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Isotopic analysis
Transplutonium

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