DOE: MM100: ICP/MS Radionuclide Analyses

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Official Method Name

Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry for Radionuclide Analyses

Current Revision

1997

Media

WATER

Instrumentation

Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry

Method Subcategory

Radiochemical

Method Source

DOE

Citation

DOE Methods

Brief Method Summary

This method supplements the U.S. EPA's SW-846 Method 6020 (EPA 1992), and addresses the application of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to radionuclides that are not covered in 6020. The concentrations of radionuclides in a digested sample are determined using an ICP-MS system.

Scope and Application

This method determines radionuclides in aqueous solutions, and is applicable only to samples with low radioactivity (so that minimum shielding is required).

Applicable Concentration Range

None given.

Interferences

Potential elemental and isobaric interferences.

Quality Control Requirements

Control chart of references standards no less than once a week when analyzing samples.

Sample Handling

Address the initial sample collection and handling in the SOP or in the project SOW.

Maximum Holding Time

Relative Cost

$51 to $200

Sample Preparation Methods

This method has 1 analyte associated with it.

Analyte	Detection Level	Bias	Precision	Pct False Positive	Pct False Negative	Spiking Level
Radioactive isotopes(E-14482) Radioactive isotopes Radionuclides	N/A	N/A	N/A

Precision Descriptor Notes:
Detection Level Note:	IDLs defined in SW-846 Method 6020 or by calibrating instrument with standards prepared per Method 6020 on three nonconsecutive days, determining concentration equivalent of blank intensity, and pooling standard deviations of blank equivalent concentrations and multiplying by three (Miller, J.C., and J.N. Miller. 1993. Statistics in Analytical Chemistry: Third Edition. p. 55, Ellis Horwood PTR, Prentice Hall, Chichester, U.K.).

Precision Descriptor Notes:

Detection Level Note:

IDLs defined in SW-846 Method 6020 or by calibrating instrument with standards prepared per Method 6020 on three nonconsecutive days, determining concentration equivalent of blank intensity, and pooling standard deviations of blank equivalent concentrations and multiplying by three (Miller, J.C., and J.N. Miller. 1993. Statistics in Analytical Chemistry: Third Edition. p. 55, Ellis Horwood PTR, Prentice Hall, Chichester, U.K.).

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1997

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