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    Direct Uranium Isotopic Analysis of Swipe Surfaces by Microextraction-ICP-MS
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    • Benjamin T. Manard*
      Benjamin T. Manard
      Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, 1 Bethel Valley Rd, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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      Kayron T. Rogers
      Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, 1 Bethel Valley Rd, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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      Brian W. Ticknor
      Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, 1 Bethel Valley Rd, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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      Shalina C. Metzger
      Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, 1 Bethel Valley Rd, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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    https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01569
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    The ability to directly measure uranium isotope ratios on environmental swipes has been achieved through a solution-based microextraction process and represents a significant advancement toward the development of a rapid method to analyze international nuclear safeguard samples. Here, a microextraction probe is lowered and sealed onto the swipe surface, and analytes within the sampling site (∼8 mm2) are dissolved and extracted into a flowing solvent of 2% nitric acid (HNO3). The mobilized species are subsequently directed into an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) for accurate and precise isotope ratio determination. This work highlights the novelty of the sampling mechanism, particularly with the direct coupling of the microextraction probe to the ICP-MS and measurement of uranium isotope ratios. The preliminary method detection limit for the microextraction-ICP-MS method, utilizing a quadrupole-based MS, was determined to be ∼50 pg of 238U. Additionally, precise and accurate isotope ratio measurements were achieved on uranium reference materials for both the major (235U/238U) and minor (234U/238U and 236U/238U) ratios. While the present work is focused on directly measuring uranium isotopic systems on swipe surfaces for nuclear safeguards and verification applications, the benefits would extend across many applications in which direct solid sampling is sought for elemental and isotopic analysis.

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    Cite this: Anal. Chem. 2021, 93, 32, 11133–11139
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    https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01569
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