Danilenko VN, Gromova NP, Konstantinov AA, Kurenkov NV, Malinin AB, Matveev SV, Sazonova TE, Stepanov EK, Sepman SV, Tronova IN. Methods of producing radionuclides for spectrometric gamma-ray sources and their standardization--2. Europium-152.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION APPLICATIONS AND INSTRUMENTATION. PART A, APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES 1989;
40:711-3. [PMID:
2548979 DOI:
10.1016/0883-2889(89)90083-x]
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Abstract
The radionuclide 152Eu was produced by irradiating 151Eu2O3 or 151EuCl3 enriched to 98.9% with thermal neutrons. 152Eu was separated from rare-earth impurities by extraction chromatography on a column using 0.6 M nitric acid eluent. The specific activity of the 152Eu was 1-10 Ci/g of Eu. The impurity of the 154Eu did not exceed 0.1%. The activity standardization of 152Eu was carried out by extrapolation of 4 pi (beta, e, x)-gamma coincidences. The relative gamma-ray intensities for 28 gamma-ray energies emitted in 152Eu decay have been measured.
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