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FINAL SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Time Ref. Sunday, March 17, 2013

18:00–20:00

Welcome Reception & Registration at Hotel Catalonia, Ramblas (C/Pelai, 28, 08001 – Barcelona)

Monday, March 18, 2013

9:00-9:45

Welcome Addresses Conference organization and practical information

SESSION 1 Instrumentation, Methods and Scintillators

9:45-10:05 29 Preliminary TDCR measurements using a x-ray tube at low-energies (lower than 20 keV) E. Halter; C. Thiam; Christophe Bobin; Jacques Bouchard; D. Chambellan; B. Chauvenet; Matthieu Hamel; L. Rocha; M. Trocmé; R. Woo

10:05-10:25 6 A versatile TDCR system with automated sample changer Ole Nähle; Karsten Kossert

10:25-10:45 63 Trial Production of Portable Liquid Scintillation Counter Yoshimune Ogata; Masayuki Goto

10:45-10:55 POSTER SUMMARY

10:55-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-11:50 64 Characterization of liquid scintillators

Tetiana E. Gorbacheva; A.I. Bedrik; L.A. Andryuschenko; V.A. Tarasov; P.N. Zhmurin

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11:50-12:10

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LSC Cocktails - Form & Function James Thomson

12:10-12:30 09 Measurement of tritium water with high efficiency by using LSC with plastic scintillator Etsuko Furuta; Ryu-Ichiro Ohyama; Shigeaki Yokota; Toshiya Nakajo; Yuka Yamada; Takao Kawano; Tatsuhiko Uda; Yasuo Watanabe; Shogo Higaki

12:30-12:50

71 Synthesis of Plastic Scintillation microspheres: composition evaluation and alpha/beta discrimination capabilities Luz M. Santiago; Alex Tarancón; Héctor Bagán; José F. García

12:50-14:20

Lunch

SESSION 2

Calibration and Standardization

14:20-14:40 42 Standardization of Tritium Water by CIEMAT/NIST Method and TDCR Method Wu Yongle; Liu Haoran; Liang Juncheng; Liu Jiacheng; Yue Huiguo; Liu Senlin; Yang Yuandi; Yuan Daqing;

14:40-15:00 51 How precise can the determination of the quench level of a liquid -scintillation solution be? Comparison of several experimental methods Guy Ratel

15:00-15:20 81 Uncertainties in measurements using LSC Quench-curves Gert-Jan Knetsch; Pieter Kwakman

15:20-15:40 11 Quench Curves Explained James Thomson

15:40-15:50 POSTER SUMMARY

15:50-16:20

Coffee break

SESSION 3

Quality assurance

16:20-16:40 44 A New Suite of Tools for the Radioactivity Measurements Laboratory João Abrantes; Gonçalo Carvalhal; Mário Reis

16:40-17:00 55 Repeat Counts – Accuracy and Precision Simon Temple

17:00-17:20 34 Organically Bound Tritium (OBT) behavior and analysis. Outcome of the international workshop held in France in 2012 Nicolas Baglan; S. B. Kim; Catherine Cossonnet; I. W. Croudace; Marc Fournier; D. Galeriu; Phillip E. Warwick; Noriyuki Momoshima; Eric Ansoborl

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

9:30-10:00

Invited lecture The free parameter models in LSC, theory, applications and new developments Philippe Cassette

SESSION 4 Radionuclide Metrology using LSC

10:00-10:20 2 Activity Determination of Fe-59

Karsten Kossert; Ole Nähle

10:20-10:40 5 Bilateral comparison between PTB and ENEA to check the performance of a

commercial TDCR system for activity measurements

Karsten Kossert; Marco Capogni; Ole J. Nähle

10:40-11:00 62 A prototype of a portable TDCR system at ENEA

Marco Capogni; Pierino De Felice

11:00-11:10 POSTER SUMMARY

11:10-11:40

Coffee break

SESSION 5

LSC in Decommissioning, Nuclear Material Studies and Neutron Detection

11:40-12:00 28 36Cl measurement in stainless steel by liquid scintillation counting

Florence Goutelard; Pascale Perret; Carine Hamon; René Brennetot; Caroline

Andrieu; Laurence De maquille

12:00-12:20 16 Determination of pure beta emitters using LSC for characterization of waste from

nuclear decommissioning

Xiaolin Hou

12:20-12:40 49 TDCR-LSC and TDCR-Cerenkov-Counting in a Radwaste Treatment Facility

Andreas Vesely

12:40-12:50 POSTER SUMMARY

12:50-13:00 Conference Photo

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13:00-14:20 Lunch

14:20-19:00 Excursion to “Bodegas Torres: spreading the culture of wine”

Sponsored by HIDEX

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

SESSION 6 Applications in Environmental Monitoring I

9:00-9:20 24 Measuring Strontium-90 and Yttrium-90 in Water Samples by Liquid Scintillation

and Cherenkov Counting

Jennifer M. Olfert; Xiongxin Dai; Sheila Kramer-Tremblay

9:20-9:40 26 Development of a rapid strontium-90 determination method for environmental

waters using a new Sr selective resin and measurement by LSC

Jake Surman; Jackie Pates; Hao Zhang; Steffen Happel

9:40-10:00 15 Determination of Sr-90 in Large Volume Urine Samples by Liquid Scintillation

Counting

Xiongxin Dai; Yuhang Cui; Sheila Kramer-Tremblay

10:00-10:20 23 Monitoring of Radionuclides in Soil and Bone Samples from Austria

Gabriele Wallner; Gabriela Wallova; Norbert Kandler

10:20-10:30 POSTER SUMMARY

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:20 72 14C concentration in soils of the different land categories

Kaeko Yasuike; Y. Yamada; T. Koura; A. Fujii; H. Kakimoto

11:20-11:40 36 226Ra measurement by LSC as a tool to assess the efficiency of a water treatment

technology for removing radionuclides from groundwater

Siiri Suursoo; Madis Kiisk; Alar Jantsikene; Kaisa Putk; Amer Al-Malahmeh; Kadri

Isakar; Liie Lumiste; Rein Munter; Margit Beyermann; Andreas Labahn

11:40-12:00 68 Determination of 210Pb and 226Ra/228Ra in continental water using HIDEX 300SL LS-

Spectrometer with TDCR efficiency tracing and optimized -discrimination

Jost Eikenberg, Heide Beer

12:00-12:20 61 Treatment of groundwater as a source of indoor radon

Alar Jantsikene; Madis Kiisk; Siiri Suursoo; Rein Koch; Liie Lumiste

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12:20-12:40

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A Couple of Methods to Calculate the Activity of Rn-222 in Water Samples by

Means of LSC Technique: Preliminary Comparative Studies

Gonçalo Carvalhal; João Abrantes; Irene Lopes; Maria José Madruga; Mário Reis

12:40-12:50 POSTER SUMMARY

12:50-14:10 Lunch

SESSION 7 New developments on Liquid Scintillation Instrumentation

14:10-14:30 82 New developments with Hidex liquid scintillation counters

Ville Haaslahti, Timo Oikari, Risto Juvonen

14:30-14:50 85 Water-Radd Instrument for continuous monitoring of alpha and beta

radionuclides

Oliver Novella; Jordi Cros; Miquel Pujades

14:50-15:10 86 Liquid Scintillation Counting

Michel Serralunga

15:10-15:30 83 Safer, NPE-free LSC Cocktails

Marleen Stomp-Smit

15:30-15:50 84 Recent applications of extraction chromatography in radioanalytical chemistry

S teffen Happel, Aude Bombard

15:50-16:20 Coffee break

SESSION 8 Applications in Environmental Monitoring II

16:20-16:40 22 Determination of Pb-210 and Po-210 in Water Using the Extractive Scintillation

Cocktail Polex™

Claudia Landstetter, Bernd Hiegesberger, Christian Katzlberger

16:40-17:00 39 Development of a novel method for extraction and determination of 7Be from

environmental matrices using liquid scintillation spectrometry

Robert Hardy; Jackie Pates

17:00-19:30

Barcelona Sightseeing by Turistic Bus

19:30 Conference Dinner at OPIUM restaurant (Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 34, 08005 Barcelona)

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

9:30-10:00

Invited lecture The Evolution of Liquid Scintillation technique: A Personal Perspective Chuck Passo

SESSION 9

Applications in Environmental Monitoring III and Natural Product Verification

10:00-10:20 65 Determination of oil reservoir radiotracer (S14CN−) in a single step using a plastic

scintillator extractive resin

Héctor Bagán; Alex Tarancón; Liv Stavsetra; Gemma Rauret; José F. García

10:20-10:40 21 Measurement of 85Kr in the environment by liquid scintillation counting

Noriyuki Momoshima; Fumio Inoue; Shinji Sugihara

10:40-11:00 75 Determination of the 14C content in biodiesel. A method improving the detection

sensitivity by decolorizing the biogenic material in biofuels

Marleen Stomp-Smit; Jan ter Wiel; Ronald Edler

11:00:11:10 POSTER SUMMARY

11:10-11:40 Coffee break

SESSION 10 Applications based on Alpha/Beta Spectrometry

11:40-12:00 32 A method for optimum PSA setting in the absence of pure α or β emitter and its

application in the determination of 237Np/233Pa

Xiao-gui Feng; Qian-ge HE; Jian-chen Wang; Jing Chen

12:00-12:20 7 Comparison of the Tricarb and Hidex 300 SL technique using measurements for 241Pu and 90Sr for diverse samples

Maya Jäggi; Jost Eikenberg

12:20-12:40 78 Gross alpha and gross beta activity measurements in drinking and mineral waters

Stanisław Chałupnik

12:40-12:50 POSTER SUMMARY

12:50-14:10 Lunch

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SESSION 11

Applications in Bioscience, Medicine, Geology and Geochronology

14:10-14:30 74 Preparation of Some High Specific Activity Tritium Labeled Compounds and

Determination of Their Ligand Binding Characteristics With Scintillation Proximity

Assay (SPA) Coated Beads

Frank Yui S Tang; Michael P. O’Malley; Nadine M. Gan

14:30-14:50 41 Geochronolgy of Lake Sediment from 210Pb with Double Energetic Window

Method by LSC

Funda Barlas Simsek; Mehmet Namık Cagatay

14:50-15:20 FINAL REMARKS

Friday, March 22, 2013

9:00-13:30 Scientific visit to Vandellós Nuclear Power Plant

13:30-15:00 Lunch

17:00-18:00 Arrival to the hotel (with stop at the Barcelona airport if needed)

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POSTERS

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Instrumentation, Methods and Scintillators

4 Flame Oxidation Method for determination of H-3 and C-14 in Environmental Samples Jovana Nikolov; Nataša Todorović; Kristina Bikit

14 Using LSC Method in IAEA-2010-3 Proficiency Test Igor A. Kashirin; Sergey V. Malinovsky; Yi. A. Maslov; E.V. Kurakina; E.B. Doskinesku; Viktor A. Tikhomirov

79 Application of zeolites for radium removal from mine waters Stanislaw Chałupnik; Wojciech Franus; Małgorzata Wysocka

80 Preliminary Data of Ionic Liquids Scintillation Properties Angela Piccoli; Chiara Canducci; Paolo Bartolomei; Antonietta Rizzo; Giuseppe Magnani; Laura Tositti; Massimo Esposito

Calibration and Standardization

50 Quench factor for tritium concentration determination in aqueous samples Carmen Varlam; Ionut Faurescu; Irina Vagner; Denisa Faurescu

56 Statistical Terminators and Quench Correction Curves Simon Temple

Quality assurance

57 Quality Control Assurance of Strontium-90 in Foodstuffs by LSC Irene Lopes; Anabela Mourato; João Abrantes; Gonçalo Carvalhal; Maria José Madruga; Mário Reis

Radionuclide Metrology using LSC

12 Counting Methods in the Purification of Silicon-32 Donald E. Dry; Wayne A. Taylor

13 Systematic study of the validity and robustness of the quenching index of commercial LS counters Philippe Cassette; Isabelle Tartès

59 Standardization of 35S, 89S, 99Tc, 147Pm and 241Pu using TDCR method at CMI Jana Sochorová; Pavel Auerbach

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Counting efficiency of gross alpha/beta radioactivity in drinking water Andrej Rožkov; Gulten Kahraman

LSC in Decommissioning and Nuclear Material Studies

27 Importance of LSC for dismantling control Pascal Fichet; Laurence De maquille; Sylvie Guégan; Anumaija Leskinen; Florence Goutelard

LSC in Neutron Detection

48 Development of Digital Neutron Diagnostic Systems for Fusion Plasmas Diagnostics Tieshuan fan; Xi Yuan; Xing Zhang; Xufei Xie; Zhongjing Chen; Xingyu Peng; Lin Huan; Tao Li; Jinxiang Chen; Xiangqing Li; Guohui Zhang; Guoqiang Zhong; Liqun Hu; Shiyao Lin; Baonian Wan; Guoliang Yuan; Yibo Zhang; Jinwei Yang; Qingwei Yang

53 Measurement of 14C by LSC in irradiated alanine to extend its use for combined gamma- and thermal neutron fluence assessment in experimental nuclear reactors B. Bartoníček; J. Kučera ; Ivo Světlík; Lenka Tomášková; L. Viererbl

Applications in Environmental Monitoring and Natural Product Verification

3 Gross Alpha/Beta and Tritium Concentrations in Water in Serbia Natasa Todorovic; Jovana Nikolov; Branislava Tenjovic; Oto Arcon

18 Enhanced activities of organically bound tritium in biota samples Michal Fejgl; Ivo Svetlik; Lenka Tomášková

25 Environmental Tritium Concentration in rain water at two sites of Japan Shinji Sugihara; Noriyuki Momoshima

30 The Optimal Combustion Condition for the Release of 3H and 14C in Radioactive Charcoal, Oil, and Resin from NPPs Mun Ja Kang; Jong Myoung Lim; Won Young Kim; Kun Ho Chung; Geun Sik Choi

33 The Screening Measurements for Radon(222Rn) and isotopic Uranium(234U/238U) in the ground water of the Okcheon Belt in South Korea Soo Young Cho; W. Yoon; B.W. Cho; Y.Y.Yoon; K.Y. Lee; K.C. Ha

40 Liquid Scintillation Counting of Polycarbonates: A sensitive technique for measurement of activity concentration of some radioactive noble gases Krasimir Mitev; V. Zhivkova; D. Pressyanov; I. Dimitrova; S. Georgiev; G. Gerganov; T. Boshkova

54 Search for Tc-99 in remains of Chernobyl fallout in Poland Krzysztof Kleszcz; Jerzy W. Mietelski

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MSFIA / LSC method for the determination of radionuclides in environmental samples Montse Mola; Antonio Nieto; Alejandra Peñalver; Carme Aguilar; Francesc Borrull

69 New method for determination of 210Pb and 210Po in water samples by means of TOA-based extractive scintillators Alexander I. Ermakov; V. Maria Chauzova

77 Results of drinking water monitoring in Upper Silesia Izabela Chmielewska; Stanisław Chałupnik; Antoni Mielnikow

38 Direct LSC method and diesel samples on the fuel market Romana Krištof; Marko Hirsch; Sašo Medved; Jasmina Kožar Logar

43 Comparison of Radiocarbon Techniques for the Assessment of Biobase Content in Fuels Randy Culp; Alexander Cherkinsky; G. V. Ravi Prasad

46 Characteristics parameters in the measurement of 14C of biodiesel by LSC Raquel Idoeta; Elena Pérez; Margarita Herranz; Fernando Legarda

Applications based on Alpha/Beta Spectrometry

31 Comparison of the solvent extraction and extraction chromatography techniques for the determination of 241Pu in soils by liquid scintillation spectrometry Magdalena Piekarz; Andrzej Komosa

47 Determination of gross alpha, gross beta and K-40. Misclassification correction Jordi Fons; Daniel Zapata-García; Joana Tent; Montserrat Llauradó

Applications in Bioscience, Medicine, Geology and Geochronology

45 Application of Low Background Liquid Scintillation Counting Method to Pharmacy: Separate Measurement of 14C and Endogenous 40K of Human Urine Yuka Kato; Masanobu Horie; Tomoyuki Yoshimura; Kiyoshi Ogiwara; Shigeo Baba

52 Drip rate and Tritium age of water in Niedźwiedzia Cave system (Sudetes, Poland) as a tool to tracking water circulation paths in karstic system Michał Gąsiorowski; Helena Hercman; Agata Pruszczyńska; Marcin Błaszczyk

Data Evaluation and Spectrum Analysis

17 Use of neural networks for building a unified spectra library of liquid scintillation counters Sergey V. Malinovsky; Igor A. Kashirin; Viktor A. Tihomirov

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COMMITTEES

Local Organizing Committee

José F. García (Coordinator)

Àlex Tarancón (Coordinator)

Héctor Bagán

Luz Santiago

Gemma Rauret

Àngels Miquel

Clarimma Sessa

Eva Marín

Jordi Pons (Web support)

Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona

Logo designed by Arch.Carmine Sessa

Scientific Committee

José F. García (Spain)

Alex Tarancón (Spain)

Philippe Cassette (France)

Steffen Happel (France)

Stanisław Chałupnik (Poland)

Jost Eikenberg (Switzerland)

Timothy Jull (USA)

Mark McClure (USA)

Brian Zimmerman (USA)

Karsten Kossert (Germany)

Siegurd Möbius (Germany)

Nora Vajda (Hungary)

Gabriele Wallner (Austria)

Xiaolin Hou (Denmark)