On the determination of 36Cl and 129I in solid materials from nuclear decommissioning activities

Inés Llopart-Babot; Mirela Vasile; Andrew Dobney; Sven Boden; Michel Bruggeman; Martine Leermakers; Jixin Qiao; Phil Warwick

doi:10.1007/s10967-022-08327-9

On the determination of ³⁶Cl and ¹²⁹I in solid materials from nuclear decommissioning activities

Inés Llopart-Babot^*, Mirela Vasile, Andrew Dobney, Sven Boden, Michel Bruggeman, Martine Leermakers, Jixin Qiao, Phil Warwick

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Abstract

Determination of the ³⁶Cl and¹²⁹I massic activities using pyrolysis combined with radiochemical separation (using a Cl-resin) in concrete and graphite samples from decommissioning waste originating from Belgian Reactor 3 and 1 (SCK CEN, Belgium), respectively, is described. Liquid scintillation counting is used for their quantification. The chemical recovery of the procedure was evaluated by determining the stable chlorine with ion chromatography and stable iodine with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The method was optimized and verified by spiking inactive solid materials.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Number of pages	14
ISSN	0236-5731
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08327-9
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2022

Keywords

36Cl
129I
Pyrolyser
Cl-resin
LSC
Nuclear decommissioning

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On the determination of ³⁶Cl and ¹²⁹I in solid materials from nuclear decommissioning activities. / Llopart-Babot, Inés; Vasile, Mirela; Dobney, Andrew; Boden, Sven; Bruggeman, Michel; Leermakers, Martine; Qiao, Jixin; Warwick, Phil.

In: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2022.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

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