Tested and validated analytical procedures are important tools for the
production of reliable, comparable and ‘fit for purpose’ analytical
measurements. However, finding and choosing a procedure can be a challenge due
to a wide variety of technologies available and the rapidity of developments in
the field.
Therefore, since 2004 the IAEA’s programme related to ALMERA has included activities aimed towards the
development of a set of procedures for determination of radionuclides in
environmental samples. It is intended that as these are developed, they will be
made available to laboratories wishing to use procedures that have been
validated by a large number of laboratories and therefore could be regarded as
having been widely tested.
ALMERA validated methods
- A procedure for the determination of Po-210 in water samples by alpha
spectrometry, IAEA Analytical Quality in Nuclear Applications Series No. 12,
2009 (download report (pdf))
- Rapid Simultaneous Determination of 89Sr and 90Sr in Milk: A Procedure Using
Cerenkov and Scintillation Counting, IAEA Analytical Quality in Nuclear
Applications Series No. 27, 2013 (download
report (pdf))
- A Procedure for the Sequential Determination of Radionuclides in
Phosphogypsum: Liquid Scintillation Counting and Alpha Spectrometry for 210Po,
210Pb, 226Ra, Th and U Radioisotopes, IAEA Analytical Quality in Nuclear
Applications Series No. 34, 2014 (download
report (pdf))
- A Procedure for the Sequential Determination of Radionuclides in
Environmental Samples: Liquid Scintillation Counting and Alpha Spectrometry for
90Sr, 241Am and Pu Radioisotopes, IAEA Analytical Quality
in Nuclear Applications Series No. 37, 2014 (download
report (pdf))
- A Procedure for the Rapid Determination of 226Ra and
228Ra in Drinking Water by Liquid Scintillation Counting, IAEA
Analytical Quality in Nuclear Applications Series No. 39, 2014 (download
report (pdf))
- A procedure for the rapid determination of Pu isotopes and Am-241 in soil
and sediment samples by alpha spectrometry, IAEA Analytical Quality in
Nuclear Applications Series No. 11, 2009 (download report (pdf))
The following review report is also available as an IAEA Analytical
Quality in Nuclear Applications Series document:
