論文

国際誌
2021年7月20日

Nondestructive Quantitative Analysis of Difficult-to-Measure Radionuclides 107Pd and 99Tc.

Analytical chemistry
  • Yosuke Toh
  • ,
  • Mariko Segawa
  • ,
  • Makoto Maeda
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  • Masayuki Tsuneyama
  • ,
  • Atsushi Kimura
  • ,
  • Shoji Nakamura
  • ,
  • Shunsuke Endo
  • ,
  • Mitsuru Ebihara

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開始ページ
9771
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記述言語
英語
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研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01233

Considering the expanding demand for nuclear waste management of the spent nuclear fuel materials in near future, a nondestructive analytical scheme applicable to one of the most difficult-to-measure nuclides 107Pd, which emits no decay γ-rays and whose half-life is too long to be decayed out during a human lifetime, was designed. The scheme consists of a sophisticated instrument capable of the detection of γ-rays by Ge detectors coupled with time-of-flight measurement of neutrons and a high-intensity pulsed neutron beam and can simultaneously perform time-of-flight-coupled prompt γ-ray analysis (TOF-PGA) as well as PGA and neutron resonance capture analysis (NRCA). The analytical capability for simulated samples of the Tc-platinum group metals (Tc-PGMs) obtained by the group-partitioning process of spent nuclear fuels, which contain not only 107Pd but also 99Tc and other difficult-to-measure fission products, was evaluated. It was confirmed that although PGA and NRCA can accurately analyze both nuclides in individual, single substances, only TOF-PGA can analyze 107Pd as well as 99Tc in the Tc-PGM-simulated sample. The TOF-PGA measurement technique can be widely used for the nondestructive analysis of 107Pd and 99Tc in nuclear wastes.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01233
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34240861
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01233
  • PubMed ID : 34240861

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