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The aim of this work was to determine the contamination of I-131 in milk samples by low background γ-spectrometry and low background β-counting techniques in the vicinity of the Nuclear Center in Salazar, Mexico. The low background γ-spectrometry was done directly. The determination by low background β-counting consisted of a radiochemical separation of I-131 by ion exchange from the milk samples followed by measurement in a low background β-counting system. The results indicated that there was no contamination of I-131 in the samples.
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Quintero-Ponce, E., López-González, H. & Cervantes-Naranjo, L. Gamma and beta background counting of I-131 in milk in the vicinity of the Nuclear Center, Mexico. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 214, 309–317 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02164373
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02164373