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Matsueda, Makoto; Terashima, Motoki; Takagai, Yoshitaka*
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Technetium-99 (Tc) is a pure beta-emitting radionuclide with a long half-life (210 000 years), produced with a yield of about 6% during the fission of U and Pu. The properties of high mobility in environment and concentrated into specific seaweeds were applied as a tracer for radioisotopes released into the environment. Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is the main method for Tc analysis; however, the isobars (Ru and MoH) interfere the quantification. In this study, a multi-stage separation and analysis system (online SPE-ICP-MS) for Tc was constructed by attaching a solid phase extraction (SPE) resin to a flow injection (FI) system and combining it with a collision reaction cell (CRC) in an ICP-MS. In addition, a high sensitivity for detecting trace amounts of Tc was developed.
Horita, Takuma; Matsueda, Makoto; Oka, Toshitaka; Kitatsuji, Yoshihiro; Kino, Yasushi*
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Shimada, Asako; Tsukahara, Takehiko*; Nomura, Masao*; Takeda, Seiji
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Because of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F), a large area of eastern Japan was contaminated by radiocesium. When radiocesium would be detected at the completion of their decommissioning in the site, estimation of the origin of which is from background originated 1F and fallout of atmospheric nuclear test or from decommissioned facilities will be important. Therefore, soils of 3 sites were collected by using U8 containers, and Cs radioactivity, Cs/Cs radioactivity ratios, Cs/Cs isotope ratios were determined. Cs radioactivity concentrations were varied in not only between sites but also in the same site, however, Cs/Cs radioactivity ratio was approximately constant in all sites. In case of highly contaminated soils, Cs/Cs isotope ratio was almost comparable to that for the soil collected at near the 1F. On the other hand, in case of lower contaminated soils, Cs/Cs isotope ratio was slightly higher than that for soil collected at near the 1F. It is possibly that fallout before the 1F accident contained Cs to increase the Cs/Cs isotope ratio.