Preparation of water samples for proficiency testing on radionuclides

H Polkowska-Motrenko; L Fuks; P Kalbarczyk; J Dudek; K Kulisa; A Oszczak; M Zuba

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.05.021

Preparation of water samples for proficiency testing on radionuclides

Appl Radiat Isot. 2015 Sep:103:61-4. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.05.021. Epub 2015 May 29.

Authors

H Polkowska-Motrenko¹, L Fuks², P Kalbarczyk², J Dudek², K Kulisa², A Oszczak², M Zuba²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Dorodna 16 street, 03-195 Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: h.polkowska@ichtj.waw.pl.
² Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Dorodna 16 street, 03-195 Warsaw, Poland.

PMID: 26070171
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.05.021

Abstract

The Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology (INCT) procedure for preparation of water samples for proficiency testing on determination of (241)Am, (137)Cs, (239)Pu, (226)Ra and (90)Sr in water is presented. Natural waters were applied as the raw materials and spiked with the aforementioned radionuclides. The procedure of spiking water allows to prevent losses of the radionuclides and to assign property values from formulation. The main advantages of this procedure are (i) similarity of the test materials to the water samples routinely analysed by radioanalytical laboratories, and (ii) traceable assigned values with low uncertainties.

Keywords: Proficiency tests; Radionuclides; Water.