Laboratory Procedures Manual

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• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Organization and Responsibilities
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• QCP1 - Training and Certification
• QCP2 - Balance Quality Control
• QCP3 - Preparation, Control, and Traceability of Standards
• QCP4 - Control of Laboratory Logbooks
• QCP5 - Analytical Quality Control and Sample Flow
• QCP6 - Radiochemical Contamination Control
• QCP7 - Automatic Pipet Quality Control
• QCP8 - Counting Room Quality Control
• QCP9 - pH Meter Quality Control
• SP1 - Sample Screening and Receipt
• SP2 - Sample Log-In
• SP3 - Sample Preparation
• AP1 - Gross Alpha and Beta for Various Matrices
• AP2 - Determination of Tritium
• AP3 - Isotopic Determination of Americium, Plutonium, Uranium, Neptunium, and/or Thorium in Soil, Water, Air Filters, and Biotic Material (this section has been deleted from the manual 6/30/08)
• AP4 - Determination of Total Radiostrontium in Environmental Samples
• AP5 - Determination of Technetium-99
• AP6 - Determination of Carbon-14 and Tritium Using The Biological Material Oxidizer
• AP7 - Radium-226 in Water and Soil Using Alpha Spectroscopy
• AP8 - Radium-228 in Water
• AP9 - Determination of Carbon-14 in Water and Smears
• AP10 - Analysis of Plutonium-241 in Environmental Samples by Liquid Scintillation Analysis
• AP11 - Sequential Determination of the Actinides in Environmental Samples Using Total Sample Dissolution and Extraction Chromatography
• AP12 - Determination of Nickel-63 in Environmental Samples
• AP13 - Determination of Iron-55 in Water
• AP14 - Determination of Sulfur-35 in Solid Environmental Samples
• AP-15 - Analysis of Polonium-210 in Water, Soil, Air Filters, Miscellaneous Samples and Biota
• AP-16 - Determination of Iron-55 in Soil and Other Solid Matrices
• CP1 - Gamma Spectroscopy
• CP2 - Alpha Spectroscopy
• CP3 - Low Background Alpha/Beta Counter
• CP4 - Liquid Scintillation Analyzer (LSA)
• WP1 - Waste Generation Procedure
• Appendix A: Job Hazard Analyses
• Appendix B: Minimum Detectable Concentrations of Commonly Reported Radionuclides