タイトル
Repeatability and reproducibility of measurements of low dissolved radiocesium concentrations in freshwater using different pre-concentration methods
著者
Momo Kurihara, Tetsuo Yasutaka, Tatsuo Aono, Nobuo Ashikawa, Hiroyuki Ebina, Takeshi Iijima, Kei Ishimaru, Ramon Kanai, Zin’ichi Karube, Yae Konnai, Tomijiro Kubota, Yuji Maehara, Takeshi Maeyama, Yusuke Okizawa, Hiroaki Ota, Shigeyoshi Otosaka, Aya Sakaguchi, Hisaya Tagomori, Keisuke Taniguchi, Masatoshi Tomita, Hirofumi Tsukada, Seiji Hayashi, Sangyoon Lee, Susumu Miyazu, Moono Shin, Takahiro Nakanishi, Tatsuhiro Nishikiori, Yuichi Onda, Takuro Shinano, Hideki Tsuji,
We assessed the repeatability and reproducibility of methods for determining low dissolved radiocesium concentrations in freshwater in Fukushima. Twenty-one laboratories pre-concentrated three of 10 L samples by five different pre-concentration methods (Prussian-blue-impregnated filter cartridges, coprecipitation with ammonium phosphomolybdate, evaporation, solid-phase extraction disks, and ion-exchange resin columns), and activity of radiocesium was measured. The z-scores for all of the 137Cs results were within ± 2, indicating that the methods were a good degree of precision. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) indicating the reproducibility among different laboratories were larger than the RSDs indicating the repeatability in each separate laboratory.
Keywords: Measurement precision Fukushima River water 137Cs 134Cs Ge-detector