ARLN reports and recommended procedures

Recommended rapid methods of analysis

• A procedure for the rapid determination of Pu isotopes and ²⁴¹Am in soil and sediments samples by alpha spectrometry
  IAEA Analytical Quality in Nuclear Applications Series No. 11, 2009
• 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, 2014
• A procedure for the rapid determination of ²²⁸Ra and ²²⁶Ra in drinking water by liquid scintillation counting
  IAEA Analytical Quality in Nuclear Applications Series No. 36, 2014

Reports and references

ARPANSA Technical reports

• A Survey of the Capabilities of Australasian Radioanalytical Laboratories
  ARPANSA/TR 168, June 2014
• Australasian Gamma-ray spectrometry Capability Exercise-2013
  ARPANSA/TR 169, June 2014
• Australasian Gamma-ray Spectrometry Capability Exercise-2015
  ARPANSA/TR 174, June 2016

References

• ARPANSA - Radiation Emergency Preparedness and Response
• ARPANSA - Radiation Protection Series No. 7: Recommendations for Intervention in Emergency Situations Involving Radiation Exposure (2004)
• IAEA ALMERA network (Analytical Laboratories for the Measurement of Environmental Radioactivity)
• IAEA Safety Standards Series No. GSR Part 7: Preparedness and Response for a Nuclear or Radiological Emergency
• United States Environmental Protection Agency Incident Guides
• United States Environmental Protection Agency Radiological Emergency Response

Proficiency test/reference materials providers

• ERA (a Waters company), United States of America
• International Atomic Energy Agency interlaboratory comparisons and proficiency tests
• National Physics Laboratory, United Kingdom