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Alternate method of source preparation for alpha spectrometry: no electrodeposition, no hydrofluoric acid

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An alternate method of preparing actinide alpha counting sources was developed in place of electrodeposition or lanthanide fluoride micro-precipitation. The method uses lanthanide hydroxide micro-precipitation to avoid the use of hazardous hydrofluoric acid. It provides a quicker, simpler, and safer way of preparing actinide alpha counting sources in routine, production-type laboratories that process many samples daily.

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  1. Rongalite solution: 0.04 M sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate + 0.05 M potassium fluoride + 0.15 M hydrochloric acid.

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This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle LLC for the Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. 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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  1. Nuclear and Radiological Protection Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Rd., Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA

    Hiromu Kurosaki, Susan B. Lambert & Govind R. Rao

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0055, USA

    Rebecca J. Mueller

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Kurosaki, H., Mueller, R.J., Lambert, S.B. et al. Alternate method of source preparation for alpha spectrometry: no electrodeposition, no hydrofluoric acid. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 311, 323–329 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-016-4942-y

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