BS ISO 8300:2013 BSl Standards Publication Nuclear fuel technology - Determination of plutonium content in plutonium dioxide of nuclear grade quality - Gravimetric method bsi. ..making excellence a habit. BRITISH STANDARD BSISO8300:2013 Nationalforeword This British Standard is the UK implementation of Is0 8300:2013 The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee NCE/9, Nuclear fuel cycle technology. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. @The British Standards Institution 2013.Published by BSI Standards Limited 2013 ISBN9780580757907 ICS 27.120.30 Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations. This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31December 2013. Amendments issued since publication Date Textaffected BS ISO 8300:2013 INTERNATIONAL ISO STANDARD 8300 Second edition 2013-12-15 Nuclear fuel technology Determination of plutonium content in plutonium dioxide of nuclear grade quality - Gravimetric method Technologiedu combustible nucleaire-Determination de la teneur enplutoniumdansdudioxydedeplutoniumdequaliténucleaire Méthode gravimétrique Referencenumber IS0 8300:2013(E) TSO @ISO2013 BSISO8300:2013 IS08300:2013(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @IS02013 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii ISO2013-Allrights reserved BS ISO 8300:2013 IS0 8300:2013(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction .. 1 Scope.. 2 Principle 3 Interferences 4 Apparatus. ..1 5 Procedure .2 5.1 Handling of the sample at the sampling station .2 5.2 Tarring of crucibles. .2 5.3 Sub-sampling. .2 5.4 Heating .2 5.5 Additional measurements .2 Expression of result. .3 6 3 6.1 Calculationofthegravimetricconversionfactor 6.2 Calculationofimpuritycorrectionfactor 3 .3 6.3 Calculationofplutoniumconcentration 6.4 Repeatability 4 6.5 Systematic errors .4 7 Test report Annex A (informative)Gravimetric conversionfactorforthenon-volatile impurities .5 @ IS0 2013 - All rights reserved ili BSISO8300:2013 IS0 8300:2013(E) Foreword Iso (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (iso member bodies).The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out throughIsOtechnicalcommittees.Eachmemberbodyinterestedinasubjectforwhichatechnical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with Iso, also take part in the work ISo collaboratescloselywiththeInternationalElectrotechnicalCommission(IEC)onallmattersof electrotechnical standardization. The procedures used to develop this document and those intended for its further maintenance are described in the ISo/IEc Directives, Part 1. In particular the different approval criteria needed for the differenttypesof Iso documentsshouldbenoted.This documentwasdrafted inaccordancewiththe editorial rules oftheISO/IEC Directives, Part2 (seewww.iso.org/directives). Attentionisdrawntothepossibilitythatsomeoftheelementsof thisdocumentmaybethesubjectof patent rights.IsO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Details of 09 anypatent rights identified during the development of the document will be in the Introduction and/or JO on the Isolist of patent declarations received (see www.iso.org/patents). Any trade name