[ RadSafe ] 10500 Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA)

[Leo M. Lowe]

  Dr. Millington,

Further to your message below, you might try contacting Becquerel Labs at

http://becquerellabs.com/

They do NAA work.

Regards,
Leo Lowe
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:29:17 +1000
From: <Keith.Millington at csiro.au>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA)
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Hi guys,

I have a need to analyse a lot of clean wool samples from individual
sheep for trace metals. I would like to try NAA, because this has the
advantage of minimum sample preparation.

For ICP-AES, I  need to hydrolyse the wool protein by refluxing it in 6M
HCl for several hours. For XRF we need to powder the sample first and
press a solid disc.

In Australia our new OPAL research reactor is having a few problems -
I'm wondering whether anyone overseas can assist with carrying out a few
NAA trials ?

Regards, Keith

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Dr Keith R Millington
Stream Leader- Fundamental Fibre Research
Senior Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology
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Leo M. Lowe, Ph.D., P.Phys.
Principal, Senior Health and
Environmental Physicist

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