In-house design for a glove box adapted LIBS instrument towards radioactive sample analysis
摘要
An in-house designed coupling of a commercial LIBS instrument with a single-module glove box for handling irradiated nuclear samples is presented in this article. The study includes the details of in-house design for coupling and mechanical integrity tests. An in-house designed liquid sample cell is employed to minimize the quenching effect in LIBS. Two sets of samples, solid (U–Zr oxide pellet) and liquid (Li in aqueous medium with/without U) are used for the feasibility study of the system. LIBS results are discussed in identifying non-overlapping peaks, calibration plots, correlation coefficient, detection limit, precision, and deviation. LIBS data is compared with the results obtained from laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) and liquid sampling ICPMS for solid and liquid samples, respectively.