Preparation of Zirconium and Zirconium-Base Alloy Certified Reference Materials JAERI-Z11 to -Z18.

摘要

The Second Sub-Committee on Zircaloy Analysis was organized in April, 1978, under the Committee on Analytical Chemistry on Nuclear Fuels and Reactor Materials, JAERI, for the renewal of zirconium and zirconium-base alloy certified reference materials (CRM's). The Sub-Committee decided certified values of major constituents and impurities in eight reference materials (JAERI -Z11 to -Z18) in July, 1983, based on the results obtained by cooperative analysis during 1978 to 1983. CRM's JAERI-Z11 to -Z14 are Zircaloy-2 in the form of disk, 32 mm in diameter and 20 mm in thickness, and useful primarily for fluorescent X-ray and emission spectrographic analysis. CRMs JAERI-Z15 and -Z16 are zirconium in the form of plate, 30 mm square and 2 mm in the thickness, and specially designed for the analysis of hafnium at trace levels : 2 to 40 mu g/g. CRM's JAERI -Z17 and -Z18 are Zircaloy-2 and -4, respectively, in the form of chips, packed in a glass bottle of which content is 25 g and useful for the analysis of carbon in Zircaloy. This report describes mainly preparation of certified reference materials, and homogeneity test by neutron activation analysis and fluorescent X-ray spectrometry. CRMs JAERI-Z11 to -Z14 have been distributed with provisional certificate since July, 1979. (Atomindex citation 16:036998)