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Online solid-phase extraction-inductively coupled plasma-quadrupole mass spectrometric quantification of 90Sr using 88Sr/86Sr isotope dilution method.

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Due to the lack of a correlation with the natural Strontium (Sr) isotopes, it is difficult to apply the isotope dilution (ID) method to an artificial radioactive mononuclide Strontium-90 (90Sr),… Click to show full abstract

Due to the lack of a correlation with the natural Strontium (Sr) isotopes, it is difficult to apply the isotope dilution (ID) method to an artificial radioactive mononuclide Strontium-90 (90Sr), in inductively coupled plasma-quadrupole mass spectrometry (ICP-QMS). Meanwhile, online solid-phase extraction (SPE)-ICP-QMS (SPE-ICP-QMS) serves as an automatic sequential analytical technique for measuring the ultra-trace amounts of radionuclides; however, apparent assay values obtained using this method are often negatively affected by differences in the sample matrix composition between standard and actual samples. In this study, the pg L-1 level of 90Sr was successfully measured by combining online SPE-ICP-QMS and the ID method with 88Sr/86Sr ratios in one sample injection, without the radioactive standard. Although naturally occurring abundant isobaric 90Zr significantly influences 90Sr quantification during mass spectrometry, consecutive separations between automated SPE and dynamic reaction cell (DRC) oxidation enable 90Sr quantification, even in the presence of isobaric 90Zr (acceptable down to 5.7 × 10-9 of 90Sr/Zr in sample solution), using this method. Through this method, both radioactive 90Sr and naturally occurring Sr were simultaneously quantified using 88Sr-to-86Sr and 88Sr-to-90Sr ratios without radioactive 90Sr standard solutions. This simultaneous quantification of stable Sr and 90Sr was achieved within 15 min with good recovery rates. The limit of detection of 90Sr was 1.1 pg L-1 (equivalent to radioactivity 5.6 Bq L-1) for a 10 mL injection. Finally, water collected from an actual contaminated water storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Fukushima, Japan) was analyzed using the proposed method, and the obtained results agreed well with those obtained using conventional analytical methods.

Keywords: dilution method; mass; 88sr 86sr; quantification; isotope dilution

Journal Title: Talanta
Year Published: 2022

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