The Laboratory Manual is intended to accompany the Textbook to permit teaching radioanalytical chemistry to seniors and graduate students in a program that will train radiochemists, who are badly needed at this time. The manual will be used in conjunction with the textbook to teach a 3-hour lecture course and a 6-hour laboratory. The experiments address a range of practical aspects in the radiochemistry laboratory: use of laboratory and radiation detection equipment, performing specific analyses for radio-iodine, radio-strontium, uranium, and plutonium, and developing the skill of selecting and testing new procedures.

Practice in Pipetting and Weighing Samples for Radioactivity Counting.- Radiation Detection Instrument Calibration and Quality Assurance.- Determination of Gamma Ray Self-absorption in a KCl Sample.- Preparation of a Beta-particle Self-absorption Curve for 40K.- Preparation and Standardization of Carriers.- Preparation and Counting of 242Pu Tracer Solution.- Basic Radiochemical Techniques Applied to Uranium-Thorium Separation: Precipitation, Solvent Extraction, and Ion Exchange.- Determination of Radium-226 and Radium-228 in Drinking Water.- Radiochemical Determination of Tritium in Water.- Determination of 131I in Water.- Modification of a Published Procedure for the Determination of Picocurie Concentrations of Iodine-131 in Milk.- Vegetation Sample Preparation for Radiochemical Analysis of Radio-strontium.- Determination of Radio-strontium Isotopes in Environmental Samples.- Determination of Radio-strontium in Water with a Strontium-specific Solid-phase Extraction Column.- Radiochemical Determination of Plutonium in Water by Ion Exchange Chromatographic Separation.- Radiochemical Determination of Plutonium in Water by Solvent Extraction.- Selection of a Method for the Radiochemical Determination of Plutonium in an Environmental Sample.- Gamma-ray Spectral Analysis of a Solution of Mixed Fission Products.- Measurement of Uranium Isotopes by Mass Spectrometer.