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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2017.50.5.341

Rapid Detection of Radioactive Strontium in Water Samples Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)  

Park, Jin-young (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST))
Kim, Hyun-a (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST))
Park, Kihong (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST))
Kim, Kyoung-woong (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST))
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.50, no.5, 2017 , pp. 341-352 More about this Journal
Abstract
Along with Cs-137 (half-life: 30.17 years), Sr-90 (half-life: 28.8 years) is one of the most important environmental monitoring radioactive elements. Rapid and easy monitoring method for Sr-90 using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) has been studied. Strontium belongs to a bivalent alkaline earth metal such as calcium and has similar electron arrangement and size. Due to these similar chemical properties, it can easily enter into the human body through the food chain via water, soil, and crops when leaked into the environment. In addition, it is immersed into the bone at the case of human influx and causes the toxicity for a long time (biological half-life: about 50 years). It is a very reductive and related with the specific reaction that makes wet analysis difficult. In particular, radioactive strontium should be monitored by nuclear power plants but it is very difficult to be analysed from high-cost problems as well as low accuracy of analysis due to complicated analysis procedures, expensive analysis equipment, and a pretreatment process of using massive chemicals. Therefore, we introduce the Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) analysis method that analyzes the elements in the sample using the inherent spectrum by generating plasma on the sample using pulse energy, and it can be analyzed in a few seconds without preprocessing. A variety of analytical plates for samples were developed to improve the analytical sensitivity by optimizing the laser, wavelength, and time resolution. This can be effectively applied to real-time monitoring of radioactive wastewater discharged from a nuclear power plant, and furthermore, it can be applied as an emergency monitoring means such as possible future accidents at a nuclear power plants.
Keywords
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy; strontium; nuclear power plant; monitoring method; radioactive pollution;
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