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Accelerating k 0

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Combining the powers of a fast pneumatic transport system and the Automatic Activation Analyzer (AAA) of the Atominstitut in Vienna with the newest version of the IAEA k 0-Software, the application of the k 0-method to the determination of short-lived radionuclides becomes easily possible. By calculating Asp-values with the IAEA software, the often expensive and time-consuming measurement of Asp-values using certified reference materials is reduced to quality control checks. Measurements clearly show that the two approaches are equivalent, especially since both take self-absorption and neutron self-shielding into account. In this way it is possible to expand the library of the AAA with many hitherto unobtainable Asp-values. At the same time, using highly accurate Asp-values already measured for many short-lived radionuclides, k 0-values for those can be produced with a simple procedure.

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  1. Atominstitut of the Austrian Universities, Vienna University of Technology, Stadionallee 2, 1020, Vienna, Austria

    J. H. Sterba, G. Steinhauser, M. Bichler, F. Grass & G. P. Westphal

  2. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Reactor InstituteDelft, University of Technology Delft, Mekelweg 15, 2629 JB, Delft, The Netherlands

    M. Blaauw

  3. Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Butenandtstr. 5-13 (Haus D), 81377, Munich, Germany

    G. Steinhauser

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Sterba, J.H., Blaauw, M., Steinhauser, G. et al. Accelerating k 0 . J Radioanal Nucl Chem 278, 613–616 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-008-1202-9

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