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Sample Type

Biota

Sediment

Water

Elements

Am

Cs

Pu

Sr

Radioisotopes 239,240Pu, 238Pu, 241Am, 137Cs, 90Sr
Detection by alpha, beta
Description

This procedure was developped by K.M. Wong, T.A.Jokela and V.E. Noshkin  at the Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the Marshall Island Program.
Methods include sample preparation, element separation by anion exchange, plating of samples and beta or alpha spectrometry.

Source K. Buesseler
Year1994
View Recipe (pdf)