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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART B-ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY
卷 63, 期 11, 页码 1309-1314出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2008.09.011
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Cs isotopes; Ba isobaric interferences; MC-ICPMS; Collision-reaction cell; N2O
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In the general frameworks of the nuclear fuel cycle and environmental research field, the Cs isotopic composition must be known with high precision and accuracy. The direct determination of Cs isotopes by mass spectrometry techniques is generally hampered by the presence of Ba isobaric interferences however. Here we present a new method which takes advantage of the collision-reaction cell based Multiple Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) and allows to analyse Cs isotopes in the presence of Ba without prior separation step. The addition of N2O gas in the cell leads to an antagonistic behavior of Cs+ and Ba+ as the latter reacts with the gas to form BaO+ and BaOH+ products whereas Cs+ remains unreactive. The efficiency of the method was demonstrated for an UOx sample by comparing the results obtained (1) from the measurements Of pure Cs fractions and (2) from Fission Products fractions containing more than 30 ionisable elements in addition to Cs, Ba, and where U and Pu were previously removed by using ion exchange resin. An excellent agreement is achieved between each set of experiments with an external reproducibility always better than 0.5% (RSD, k=2), This study confirms the strong potential of collision-reaction cell to measure Cs isotopes in presence of interfering Ba, precluding therefore former systematic chemical separations. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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