Environmental Radioanalysis

H.A. Das, A. Faanhof and H.A. van der Sloot (Eds.)9780444823892, 0444823891

The participation in interlaboratory studies and the use of Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) are widely recognised tools for the verification of the accuracy of analytical measurements and they form an integral part of quality control systems used by many laboratories, e.g. in accreditation schemes. As a response to the need to improve the quality of environmental analysis, the European Commission has been active in the past fifteen years, through BCR activity (now renamed Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme) in the organisation of series of interlaboratory studies involving expert laboratories in various analytical fields (inorganic, trace organic and speciation analysis applied to a wide variety of environmental matrices). The BCR and its successor have the task of helping European laboratories to improve the quality of measurements in analytical sectors which are vital for the European Union (biomedical, agriculture, food, environment and industry); these are most often carried out in support of EC regulations, industrial needs, trade, monitoring activities (including environment, agriculture, health and safety) and, more generally, when technical difficulties hamper a good comparability of data among EC laboratories. The collaborative projects carried out so far have placed the BCR in the position of second world CRM producer (after NIST in the USA).

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Table of contents :
Content:
Edited by
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

Foreword
Page 1
H.A. Das

Acknowledgement
Page 2

Chapter 1 Introduction
Pages 7-13

Chapter 2 Principles of Neutron Activation Analysis and Prompt Techniques, Applied in Environmental Analysis
Pages 14-34

Chapter 3 Principles of Radiotracer Measurements in Environmental Studies
Pages 35-50

Chapter 4 Sampling in Environmental Analysis
Pages 51-82

Chapter 5 Preconcentration and Decontamination in Radioanalysis
Pages 83-112

Chapter 6 Analytical Criteria in Radioanalysis
Pages 113-148

Chapter 7 Practice of Environmental Radioanalysis
Pages 149-182

Chapter 8 Radioanalysis of Water
Pages 183-221

Chapter 9 The Elemental Analysis of dry Biological Material
Pages 222-261

Chapter 10 Silicates, Coal and Related Solids from Energy Production
Pages 262-289

Subject Index
Pages 290-296