Uranium Detection - Technique Validation Report

Colletti, Lisa Michelle¹  Garduno, Katherine¹  Lujan, Elmer J.¹  Mechler-Hickson, Alexandra Marie¹  Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)]  May, Iain¹  Reilly, Sean Douglas¹ 

[1] Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Chemistry Division

关键词: SOLUTIONS;    URANIUM;    ACCURACY;    TITRATION;    DATA ANALYSIS;    VALIDATION;    DETECTION;    SULFATES;    SPECTROSCOPY;    TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;    VISIBLE SPECTRA;    ABSORPTION SPECTRA;    QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1248111
RP-ID  :  LA-UR--16-22546
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1248111
Others  :  TRN: US1601254

学科分类：化学（综合）

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

As a LANL activity for DOE/NNSA in support of SHINE Medical Technologies??? ???Accelerator Technology??? we have been investigating the application of UV-vis spectroscopy for uranium analysis in solution. While the technique has been developed specifically for sulfate solutions, the proposed SHINE target solutions, it can be adapted to a range of different solution matrixes. The FY15 work scope incorporated technical development that would improve accuracy, specificity, linearity & range, precision & ruggedness, and comparative analysis. Significant progress was achieved throughout FY 15 addressing these technical challenges, as is summarized in this report. In addition, comparative analysis of unknown samples using the Davies-Gray titration technique highlighted the importance of controlling temperature during analysis (impacting both technique accuracy and linearity/range). To fully understand the impact of temperature, additional experimentation and data analyses were performed during FY16. The results from this FY15/FY16 work were presented in a detailed presentation, LA-UR-16-21310, and an update of this presentation is included with this short report summarizing the key findings. The technique is based on analysis of the most intense U(VI) absorbance band in the visible region of the uranium spectra in 1 M H₂SO₄, at ??_max = 419.5 nm.