Determination and distribution of 210Pb in plants using Liquid Scintillation Counting

This study presented the determination and distribution of Pb-210 in plants using Liquid Scintillation Counting. The analysis method of Pb-210 in plants has been improved by optimizing the pulse shape analysis setup,constructing quenched correction curves, as well as consideration of the counting from both Pb-210 and its progeny Bi-210. This method was used to test for the determination of Pb-210 in samples of three species collected from two sites around a uranium mining facility.

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This study determined and distributed Pb-210 in plants using Liquid Scintillation Counting. The method was improved by optimizing the pulse shape analysis setup, constructing quenched correction curves, and considering the counting from both Pb-210 and its progeny Bi-210. The method was applied to test Pb-210 determination in samples of three species collected from two sites around a uranium mining facility.