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In Situ Detection and Single Cell Quantification of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Using Nuclear Microprobe Analysis
Published on: February 3, 2018
Ultra low-level measurements of actinides by sector field ICP-MS
F Pointurier1, N Baglan, P Hémet
1Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, DAM-Ile de France/DASE/SRCE, P.O. Box 12, Bruyères-le-Châtel F-91680, France. fabien.pointurier@cea.fr
Abstract:
In the present work, a double-focusing sector field inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer was optimised for ultra trace and isotopic analyses of actinide long-lived isotopes in low concentration solutions of the fgml(-1) to the ngml(-1) range. Sensitivities of about 3GHz/(microgml(-1)), with as low a background as 0.1cps, were obtained for U using a conventional concentric pneumatic nebuliser. Detection limits are below the fg range for 239Pu and 240Pu. With natural U, a precision lower than 0.5% RSD is currently obtained for 235U/238U isotopic ratio at the 200pgml(-1) level.
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