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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
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01-november-2019
Kakovost vode - Železo Fe-55 in nikelj Ni-63 - Preskusna metoda s štetjem s
tekočinskim scintilatorjem (ISO/DIS 22515:2019)
Water quality - Iron-55 and nickel-63 - Test method using liquid scintillation counting
(ISO/DIS 22515:2019)
Wasserbeschaffenheit - Eisen-55 - Verfahren mit dem Flüssigszintillationszähler
(ISO/DIS 22515:2019)
Qualité de l'eau - Fer-55 et nickel-63 - Méthode dessai par comptage des scintillations
en milieu liquide (ISO/DIS 22515:2019)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN ISO 22515
ICS:
13.060.60 Preiskava fizikalnih lastnosti Examination of physical
vode properties of water
17.240 Merjenje sevanja Radiation measurements
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2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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DRAFT INTERNATIONAL STANDARD
ISO/DIS 22515
ISO/TC 147/SC 3 Secretariat: AFNOR
Voting begins on: Voting terminates on:
2019-09-19 2019-12-12
Water quality — Iron-55 — Test method using liquid
scintillation counting
Qualité de l'eau — Fer-55 — Méthode d’essai par comptage des scintillations en milieu liquide
ICS: 17.240; 13.060.60
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Contents Page
Foreword .v
Introduction .vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions, symbols, and units . 2
3.1 General use . 2
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3.2 Fe and Fe specific terms . 3
4 Principle . 6
5 Reagents . 6
5.1 Standard solutions . 6
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5.1.1 Iron-55 and Fe standards . 6
5.1.2 Stable iron standards . 6
5.1.3 Chemical Quenching agent . 6
5.1.4 Colour Quenching agent . 6
5.2 Holdback carrier . 6
5.3 Water . 7
5.4 Specific reagents for chemical separation . 7
5.4.1 Stable iron carrier solution . 7
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5.4.2 Ammonium hydroxide solution, c(NH OH) = 4 mol l .
4
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5.4.3 Nitric acid solution, c(HNO ) = 7,2 mol l . .
3
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5.4.4 Ammonium hydroxide solution, c(NH OH) = 6 mol l .
4
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5.4.5 Hydrochloric acid, c(HCl) = 9 mol l .
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5.4.6 Hydrochloric acid, c(HCl) = 6 mol l .
-1 7
5.4.7 Hydrochloric acid, c(HCl) = 4 mol l .
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5.4.8 Hydrochloric acid, c(HCl) = 0,01 mol l .
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5.4.9 Nitric acid solution, c(HNO ) = 8 mol l .
3
-1 7
5.4.10 Nitric acid solution, c(HNO ) = 2 mol l .
3
-1 7
5.4.11 Sodium hydrogen phosphate, c(Na HPO ) = 0,5 mol l .
2 4
-1 7
5.4.12 Hydrochloric acid, c(HCl) = 1 mol l .
6 Equipment . 8
6.1 Laboratory equipment for direct evaporation . 8
6.2 Liquid scintillation vials . 8
6.3 Measurement equipment: Liquid scintillation counter . 8
7 Sampling and sample preparation . 8
8 Liquid scintillation set up and calibration . 8
8.1 Window setting . 8
8.2 Background . 8
8.3 Calibration . 9
9 Procedure.10
9.1 Preliminary .10
[11] 10
9.1.1 Stable iron content .
9.1.2 Iron separation .10
9.2 Iron-55 source preparation.11
10 Quality control .11
11 Expression of results .12
11.1 Iron recovery .12
11.2 Activity calculation .12
11.3 Uncertainties .13
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11.3.1 Fe detection efficiency .13
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11.3.2 Fe detection efficiency .13
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11.3.3 Iron recovery .14
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11.3.4 Fe activity .14
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11.3.5 Fe decision threshold and detection limit .15
11.4 Confidence interval limits.15
12 Test report .16
Annex A (informative) Isolation and purification of iron .17
Annex B (informative) Analysis flow chart .18
Bibliography .19
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Foreword
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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 147/SC3, Water quality, SC 3, Radioactivity
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Introduction
Radioactivity from several naturally-occurring and anthropogenic sources is present throughout
the environment. Thus, water bodies (e.g. surface waters, ground waters, sea waters) can contain
radionuclides of natural, human-made, or both origins:
40 3 14
— natural radionuclides, including K, H, C, and those originating from the thorium and uranium
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decay series, in particular Ra, Ra, U, U, Po and Pb can be found in water for
natural reasons (e.g. desorption from the soil and washoff by rain water) or can be released from
technological processes involving naturally occurring radioactive materials (e.g. the mining and
processing of mineral sands or phosphate fertilizers production and use);
— human-made radionuclides such as transuranium elements (americium, plutonium, neptunium,
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curium), H, C, Sr, and gamma emitting radionuclides can also be found in natural waters.
Small quantities of these radionuclides are discharged from nuclear fuel cycle facilities into the
environment as a result of authorized routine releases. Some of these radionuclides used for
medical and industrial applications are also released into the environment after use. Anthropogenic
radionuclides are also found in waters as a result of past fallout contaminations resulting from
the explosion in the atmosphere of nuclear devices and accidents such as those that occurred in
Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Radionuclide activity concentration in water bodies can vary according to local geological
characteristics and climatic conditions and can be locally and temporally enhanced by releases from
[1]
nuclear installation during planned, existing, and emergency exposure situations. Drinking-water
may thus contain radionuclides at activity concentrations which could present a risk to human health.
The radionuclides present in liquid effluents are usually controlled before being discharged into
[2]
the environment and water bodies. Drinking waters are monitored for their radioactivity as
[3]
recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) so that proper actions can be taken to ensure
that there is no adverse health effect to the public. Following these international recommendations,
national regulations usually specify radionuclide authorized concentration limits for liquid effluent
discharged to the environment and radionuclide guidance levels for waterbodies and drinking waters
for planned, existing, and emergency exposure situations. Compliance with these limits can be assessed
using measurement results with their associated uncertainties as specified by ISO/IEC Guide 98-3 and
[4]
ISO 5667-20 .
Depending on the exposure situation, there are different limits and guidance levels that would result
in an action to reduce health risk. As an example, during a planned or existing situation, the WHO
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guidelines for guidance level in drinking water is 1 000 Bq·l-1 for Fe activity concentration.
-1
NOTE 1 The guidance level is the activity concentration with an intake of 2 l d of drinking water for one year
-1
that results in an effective dose of 0,1 mSv a for members of the public. This is an effective dose that represents
[3]
a very low level of risk and which is not expected to give rise to any detectable adverse health effects .
[5]
In the event of a nuclear emergency, the WHO Codex Guideline Levels mentioned that the activity
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concentration might not be greater than 10 000 Bq·l for Fe.
NOTE 2 The Codex guidelines levels (GLs) apply to radionuclides contained in foods destined for human
consumption and traded internationally, which have been contaminated following a nuclear or radiological
emergency. These GLs apply to food after reconstitution or as prepared for consumption, i.e., not to dried or
concentrated foods, and are based on an intervention exemption level of 1 mSv in a year for members of the
[5]
public (infant and adult) .
Thus, the test method can be adapted so that the characteristic limits, decision threshold, detection
limit and uncertainties ensure that the radionuclide activity concentrations test results can be verified
to be below the guidance levels required by a national authority for either planned/existing situations
[6][7]
or for an emergency situation .
Usually, the test methods can be adjusted to measure the activity concentration of the radionuclide(s)
in either wastewaters before storage or in liquid effluents before being discharged to the environment.
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The test results will enable the plant/installation operator to verify that, before their discharge,
wastewaters/liquid effluent radioactive activity concentrations do not exceed authorized limits.
The test method(s) described in this document may be used during planned, existing and emergency
exposure situations as well as for wastewaters and liquid effluents with specific modifications that
could increase the overall uncertainty, detection limit, and threshold.
The test method(s) may be used for water samples after proper sampling, sample handling, and test
sample preparation (see the relevant parts of the ISO 5667 series).
This document has been developed to answer the need of test laboratories carrying out these
measurements, that are sometimes required by national authorities, as they may have to obtain a
specific accreditation for radionuclide measurement in drinking water samples.
This document is one of a set of International Standards on test methods dealing with the measurement
of the activity concentration of radionuclides in water samples.
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Water quality — Iron-55 — Test method using liquid
scintillation counting
WARNING — Persons using this document should be familiar with normal laboratory practice.
This document does not purport to address all of the safety problems, if any, associated with its
use. It is the responsibility of the user to establish appropriate safety and health practices and to
determine the applicability of any other restrictions.
IMPORTANT — It is absolutely essential that tests conducted according to this document be
carried out by suitably trained staff.
1 Scope
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This document specifies a test method for the determination of iron-55 ( Fe) activity concentration in
samples of all types of water using liquid scintillation counting (LSC). Using currently available liquid
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scintillation counters, this test method can measure the Fe activity concentrations in the range of
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less than 30 mBq l to 120 mBql . These values can be achieved with a counting time between 7 200 s
and 10 800 s for a sample volume from 0,5 l to 1,5 l. Higher activity concentrations can be measured by
either diluting the sample or using smaller sample aliquots or both.
NOTE These are indicative values. Individual laboratories should establish their own performance
parameters.
The range of application depends on the amount of dissolved material in the water and on the
performance characteristics of the measurement equipment (background count rate and counting
efficiency).
It is the laboratory’s responsibility to ensure the suitability of this test method for the water
samples tested.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 3696, Water for analytical laboratory use — Specification and test methods
ISO 5667-1, Water quality — Sampling — Part 1: Guidance on the design of sampling programmes and
sampling techniques
ISO 5667-3, Water quality — Sampling — Part 3: Preservation and handling of water samples
ISO 7870-2, Control charts — Part 2: Shewhart control charts
ISO/IEC 11929, Determination of the characteristic limits (decision threshold, detection limit and limits of
the confidence interval) for measurement of ionizing radiation — Fundamentals and application
ISO 11885, Water quality — Determination of selected elements by inductively coupled plasma optical
emission spectrometry (ICP-OES)
ISO 15586, Water quality — Determination of trace elements using atomic absorption spectrometry with
graphite furnace
ISO/IEC 17025, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
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ISO 17294-2, Water quality — Application of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) —
Part 2: Determination of selected elements including uranium isotopes
ISO 19361, Measurement of radioactivity — Determination of beta emitters activities — Test method using
liquid scintillation counting
ISO 80000-10, Quantities and units — Part 10: Atomic and nuclear physics
3 Terms and definitions, symbols, and units
For the purposes of this document, the terms, definitions, symbols and abbreviated terms given
in ISO 80000-10 and the following apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https: //www .iso .org/obp
— IEC Electropedia: available at http: //www .electropedia .org/
3.1 General use
Table 1 — General symbols and units
Symbol Units Comments
-1
s Count rate of reagent blank for energy region (2 to 20) keV
r
bA
()
-1
s Count rate of reagent blank for energy region (20 to 3 000) keV
r
bB()
-1
s Detector background for energy region (2 to 20) keV
r
0()A
-1
s Detector background for energy region (20 to 3 000) keV
r
0 B
()
s Background count time
t
b
l Sample volume
V
s
u l Uncertainty on sample volume
()V
s
-1 -1
ε s .Bq General term for detection efficiency
None Liquid scintillation quench parameter
Q
p
n/a
Empirical function linking a quench parameter, Q , to a detection efficiency, ε.
fQ
() p
p
E keV Beta particle energy
S(E) n/a Energy distribution for beta particles emitted by a particular radionuclide
n/a Liquid scintillation counting free parameter
½
m
Table 2 — Symbols from ISO 11929:2010
Terms from ISO 11929:2010
y Determined value of the estimate of the measurand
Standard uncertainty of the estimate of the measurand
uy()
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Table 2 (continued)
Terms from ISO 11929:2010
y Determined value of the estimate of the measurand
Multiplier, comprised of detection efficiency, decay, sample quantity that concerts r to
netA, Fe
()
w
c
Fe−55
c , such that w =
Fe−55
r
netA, ()Fe
Uncertainty on multiplier w, where:
2
2
 
ur
uw()
() uc
 () 
netA, ()Fe
Fe−55
 
uw =⋅w +
()
 
 
r c
 
netA, ()Fe Fe−55
 
Probability of the error of the first kind
α
k Quantiles of the standardised normal distribution for the probabilities 1−α
1−α
β Probability of the error of the second kind
k
Quantiles of the standardised normal distribution for the probabilities 1−β
1−β
Coverage factor (k = 2 is associated with a level of confidence of approximately 95,5% for a Gaussian
k
distribution)
Decision threshold
*
y
Detection limit
#
y
 Lower confidence limit of y
y
 Upper confidence limit of y
y
Distribution function of the standardised normal distribution
Φ
ω
Distribution function of y, where the standard measurement uncertainty is uy
()
Concentration of the measureand
c
A
Uncertainty on the concentration of the measureand
uc
()
A

Lower confidence limit of c
c
A
a

Upper confidence limit of c
c
A
a
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Table 3 — Symbols and units specific to Fe analysis
Symbol Units Comments
-1
g.g Natural iron mass concentration of sample
C
Fe()n
-1
u
g.g Uncertainty on natural iron mass concentration of sample
C
()
Fe()n
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Bq.g Activity concentration of the Fe calibration standard solution
A
Fe−55
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u Bq.g Uncertainty on activity concentration of the Fe calibration standard solution
A
()
Fe−55
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Table 3 (continued)
Symbol Units Comments
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g Mass of Fe calibration standard solution used
m
sFe−55
()
55
u
g Uncertainty on mass of Fe calibration standard solution used
m
()
sF()e−55
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s Gross count rate of the Fe standard source in region A
r
sF()eA−55,
55
s Count time of Fe standard source
t
sF()e−55
-1 -1 55
s .Bq Detection efficiency of Fe in energy region (2 to 20) keV
ε
Fe A
()
-1 -1 55
u
s .Bq Uncertainty on detection efficiency of Fe in energy region (2 to 20) keV
ε
()
Fe()A
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Bq.g Activity concentration of the Fe calibration standard solution
A
Fe−59
-1 59
Bq.g Uncertainty on activity concentration of the Fe calibration standard solution
u
()A
Fe−59
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g Mass of Fe calibration standard solution used
m
sFe−59
()
59
u
g Uncertainty on mass of Fe calibration standard solution used
m
()
sF()e−59
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s Gross count rate of the Fe standard source in region A
r
sF()eA−59,
59
s Count time of Fe standard sou
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