Abstract:
Radioactivity purity of the solid
219Rn source made using
227Ac extracted from uranium ore were determined by γ-spectrometry. The activities of
227Th,
223Ra,
219Rn and
211Bi produced by the decay of
227Ac and the contents of
226Ra,
224Ra which generates
222Rn,
220Rn to affect the purity of actinide in this source were analyzed after
227Ac in radioactive equilibrium with its daughter nuclides. The γ-ray energy used for the determination of these daughter nuclides of
227Ac are 235.97, 256.25 keV for
227Th, 154.21 keV for
223Ra, 401.81 keV for
219Rn, and 351.059 keV for
211Bi. Through the analysis, the results are acquired that their activities are (1 069±3), (1 079±5), (1 095±13), (1 096±14) and (11 089±4) Bq respectively, and the average activity of solid
219Rn source is (1 093±8) Bq. The activities of
226Ra and
224Ra in this source are 5.12 Bq and 0.433 Bq respectively by the γ-ray energy as follows: 238.632 keV of
212Pb, 583.191 keV of
208Tl for
224Ra, and 609.312, 1 120.287 keV of
214Bi for
226Ra, as they are all far below (1 093±8) Bq, so the radioactivity purity of the solid
219Rn source is very high. The results show that the solid
219Rn source can be developed to the standards for the efficiency calibration of the delayed coincidence counting system.