Difference between revisions of "KJM 5911 Laboratory Exercises List"

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List of Laboratory Exercises:

• Handling and Measuring Radioactive Material - This is a introduction on how to work in a rad. lab. The student will lern basic radiation protection principles and do some basic work with natural uranium, e.g. prepare a counting sample by filtering UO₃ from an aquous solution. This sample is then used to investigate basic counting principles and counting statistics.
• The ²³⁴Th/²³⁴Pa Radionuclide Generator - A ²³⁴Th/²³⁴Pa radionuclide generator is prepared by extracting thorium on a DOWEX ion-exchanger collumn. ²³⁴Pa is milked from this collumn and the half life is determined.
• Liquid Scintillation Counting - The basic principles behind LSC is taught by measuring different beta-emitting samples. Quench-correction curves is obtained manually and explained.
• Isotopic Exchange Reactions
• Neutron Activation Analysis -(NAA) and Gamma Spectroscopy
• Using tracers to investigate liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) - Distribution ratios and yield will be measured using radiotracers. The measurements will be done with HPGe gamma-detectors and calibrating and using this is an important part of the exercise.
• Szilard-Chalmers reaction
• Working with large amounts of radioactivity