Re: Radiochemistry Procedures

[rick_strickert@urscorp.com]

Denise Hess asked:

> Would anyone have any information for the radiochemical
> analysis of Pa-231 or Ac-227.

Here's a few references on the chemistry of or the radiochemistry analysis
for protactinium and actinium:

H. A. Potratz and N.A. Bonner. "Protactinium", in "Collected Radiochemical
Procedures (Radiochemistry Group J-11)", LA-1721, 3rd Ed., compiled by
Jacob Kleinberg, September, 1967, p.95ff.  Also in the edition distributed
in December 1954.

Arthur C. Wahl and Norman A. Bonner. Radiochemistry Applied to Chemistry,
Wiley and Sons, New York, 1951.

G.G.  Choppin and J. Rydberg. Nuclear Chemistry: Theory and Applications,
Pergamon Press, 1980. See pp. 253-254, 259, 432-435.

Yusura Kusaka and W.Wayne Meinke. "Rapid Radiochemical Separations"
NAS-NS-3104, Nuclear Science Series, U.S. Energy Research and Development
Administration, 1961, pp. 104-106.

Radioactive Isotope of Protactinium, G.T. Seaborg, J.W. Gofman, and J.W.
Kennedy, Phys. Rev. 59, 321 (1941).

R.R. Shoun and W.J. McDowell. "Actinide Extractants: Development,
Comparison, and Future", in Actinide Separations, ed. by James D. Navritil
and Wallace W. Schulz, ACS Symposium Series 117, American Chemical Society,
Washington, D.C., 1980, p.74.

Krishnawamy Rengan and Richard A. Meyer. "Ultrafast Chemical Separations",
NAS-NS-3118, Nuclear Science Series,National Research Council, Washington
D.C., 1993.

Rick

Richard Strickert, Ph.D.
URS - Radian
Austin, TX
rick_strickert@urscorp.com


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