IAEA proficiency tests for determination of radionuclides in sea water

Arend Harms; Mai Khanh Pham; Oxana Blinova; Sandor Tarjan; Hartmut Nies; Iolanda Osvath

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.02.015

IAEA proficiency tests for determination of radionuclides in sea water

Appl Radiat Isot. 2017 Aug:126:252-255. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.02.015. Epub 2017 Feb 14.

Authors

Arend Harms¹, Mai Khanh Pham², Oxana Blinova², Sandor Tarjan³, Hartmut Nies², Iolanda Osvath²

Affiliations

¹ International Atomic Energy Agency, Environment Laboratories, 4, Quai Antoine 1er, 98000 Monaco, Monaco. Electronic address: a.v.harms@iaea.org.
² International Atomic Energy Agency, Environment Laboratories, 4, Quai Antoine 1er, 98000 Monaco, Monaco.
³ International Atomic Energy Agency, Environment Laboratories, 2444 Seibersdorf, Austria.

PMID: 28256377
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.02.015

Abstract

The International Atomic Energy Agency organised four proficiency tests between 2012 and 2015 to test the performance of participating laboratories in an analysis of radionuclides in sea water samples. These exercises were initiated to support IAEA Member States in sea water analyses of tritium, strontium-90 and caesium isotopes in relation to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, in March 2011, and subsequent contamination of the marine environment.

MeSH terms

Animals
Cesium Radioisotopes / analysis
Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Humans
International Agencies
Laboratory Proficiency Testing / methods
Laboratory Proficiency Testing / statistics & numerical data
Mediterranean Sea
Radiometry / methods*
Radiometry / statistics & numerical data
Seawater / analysis*
Strontium Radioisotopes / analysis
Tritium / analysis
Water Pollutants, Radioactive / analysis*

Substances

Cesium Radioisotopes
Strontium Radioisotopes
Water Pollutants, Radioactive
Tritium
Cesium-137
Strontium-90
Cesium-134