Abstract:
With the development of nuclear energy, tritium and
14C have become the main radionuclide emissions to the environment, and get more and more attention of people. Therefore, the monitoring technique about organic tritium and
14C in environmental biological medium becomes the key point for the monitoring work, and how to extract organic tritium and
14C in biological samples is the key for monitoring and analysis work. This article provides the method to extract and measure the organic tritium and
14C by oxidation combustion, then to measure. The measured results show that the device blank recovery rate can reach 87.1% and 96.4%; the standard addition recovery rate can reach 84.8% and 95.7% respectively. The specific activity of organic tritium and
14C in biological samples of pine needles are (8.89±0.54) Bq/kg (fresh weight, 3.19 Bq/L,
n=3) and (22.2±1.90) Bq/kg (fresh weight, 0.150 Bq/g (carbon),
n=3); and the detection lower limits of organic tritium and
14C are 4.04 Bq/kg (fresh weight, 1.29 Bq/L) and 14.3 Bq/kg (fresh weight, 0.096 Bq/g (carbon)); and the expanded uncertainty of this analysis method of organic tritium and
14C are 25.6% and 39.4% (
k=2) respectively. Analysis results have the same level with similar biological samples, and the analysis results are reliable.