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Yadong Wang1, Yi Wang2, Xiongxin Dai3
1China Institute for Radiation Protection, Taiyuan, 030006, China; School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
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A new method to determine the 60Co impurity in 14C-urea capsules by liquid scintillation counting (LSC) has been developed. In this method, the counting signals produced by the Compton electrons of 60Co is used for 60Co analysis by selecting an appropriate region of interest in the LSC spectrum of the 14C-urea capsule sample. The spectral interferences caused by the high-activity 14C and the quench effect can be effectively eliminated by using a fixed sample preparation procedure. This method was validated by standard addition method using the commercial 14C-urea capsules and the results of 60Co activity are in good agreement with the expected values. The sensitivity of this method is calculated as ≤0.0064% for 60Co content and sufficiently competent for the limit test of <0.1% radio-impurity (including 60Co) in 14C-urea capsules. The method provides a practicable guidance for the radionuclidic purity test of 14C-urea capsules using LSC and can be directly applied in the routine quality test of 14C-urea capsules.
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