The rapid determination of americium in sediments by NaI(T ) gamma spectroscopy
- 30 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Environmental Technology Letters
- Vol. 1 (7) , 333-338
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09593338009383985
Abstract
As an alternative to radiochemical separations and alpha spectroscopy, a rapid and cheap method of determining 241Am in sediments by Nal(Tl) gamma spectroscopy is described. The 0.06 Mev photopeak is used with a special correction for the iodine KX‐ray escape in a Nal(Tl) detector after the elimination of the interfering 0.026 Mev photopeak with a SiO2 absorber. The technique has comparable precision and accuracy with the alpha counting approach.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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