DIN Standards Committee Water Practice
Water quality - Tritium - Test method using liquid scintillation counting (ISO 9698:2019); German version EN ISO 9698:2019
Abstract
This document specifies a method by liquid scintillation counting for the determination of tritium activity concentration in samples of marine waters, surface waters, ground waters, rain waters, drinking waters or of tritiated water ([3H]H2O) in effluents. The method is not directly applicable to the analysis of organically bound tritium; its determination requires additional chemical processing of the sample (such as chemical oxidation or combustion). With suitable technical conditions, the detection limit may be as low as 1 Bq·l−1. Tritium activity concentrations below 10 hoch 6 Bq·l−1 can be determined without any sample dilution.
Begin
2016-10-05
WI
00230356
Planned document number
DIN EN ISO 9698
Project number
11904169
Responsible national committee
NA 119-01-03-08 UA - Radioactivity measurements in waters
Responsible european committee
Responsible international committee
ISO/TC 147/SC 3 - Radioactivity measurements
draft standard
Water quality - Tritium - Test method using liquid scintillation counting (ISO/DIS 9698:2017); German and English version prEN ISO 9698:2017
2017-04
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