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USGS BCR-1 and G-2, NBS 1633a Coal Fly-Ash and a 7-element synthetic standard for biological material have been analysed in this work by reactor NAA, using the k0-standardization method. The analyses were performed independently in the analytical laboratories of the Institute for Nuclear Sciences (INW), Gent, and the Central Research Institute for Physics (KFKI), Budapest. This procedure allowed not only a comparison with the specified data or with other published values, but enabled a check of the consistency of our own results obtained in largely different experimental circumstances. As concluded the k0-standardization method combines general versatility (with respect to irradiation and counting conditions) with good accuracy, while keeping the experimental work as simple as possible. Since the k0 method is a computer-oriented technique, a FORTRAN IV program was designed and applied on a VAX 11/780 machine.
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Xilei, L., De Corte, F., Moens, L. et al. Computer-assisted reactor NAA of geological and other reference materials, using the k0-standardization method: Evaluation of the accuracy. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 81, 333–343 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02135386
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