Investigation of vacuum melting technique for low background titanium

Tao ZHANG; Ke HAN; Jianglai LIU; Yue MENG; Yukun YAO; Siguang WANG; Bobo LI; Yinqi LIU; Teng PEI

doi:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2022.hjs.45.110201

NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, Volume. 45, Issue 11, 110201(2022)

Investigation of vacuum melting technique for low background titanium

Tao ZHANG^1,2, Ke HAN^1,2, Jianglai LIU^1,2, Yue MENG^1,2、*, Yukun YAO¹, Siguang WANG³, Bobo LI⁴, Yinqi LIU⁴, and Teng PEI⁴

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¹Sichuan Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chengdu 610213, China

²School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

³School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology and Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

⁴Luoyang Shuangrui Titanium Precision Casting Co. , Ltd. , Luoyang 471000, China

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Fig. 1. Abbreviated decay chain of ²³⁸U

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Fig. 2. Abbreviated decay chain of ²³²Th

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Fig. 3. Relative activity trend after complete ²²⁸Ra removal from the decay chain of ²³²Th

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Table 1. Radioactive background of the sample from vacuum consumable electrode arc furnace (mBq∙kg^-¹)

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Table 1. Radioactive background of the sample from vacuum consumable electrode arc furnace (mBq∙kg^-¹)

样品编号Sample	⁶⁰Co	¹³⁷Cs	⁴⁰K	²³²Th-²²⁸Ac	²³²Th-²²⁸Th	²³⁸U-²²⁶Ra	²³⁸U-²²²Rn	²³⁵U
VARA	0±60	0±48	12 959±1 302	3 594±284	3 411±177	4 324±1 267	2 482±153	66±132
	<98	<79						<282
VARB	0.02±3.53	2.2±3.8	196±63	35±14	196±13	316±128	5.8±5.2	2.7±10.6
	<5.81	<8.4		<58		<526	<14	<20
P4TP	0.04±1.17	0±1.32	3.60±13.6	1.77±3.49	0.55±1.33	0±15.1	4.64±2.07	0.03±2.1
	<1.96	<2.16	<25.9	<7.49	<2.73	<27.8	<8.03	<3.47
VARC	0±0.75	0±0.79	1.67±7.35	2.59±1.75	7.44±1.67	87±27	2.17±1.41	3.59±2.75
	<1.23	<1.20	<12.1	<5.46			<4.48	<8.10
VARD	0.54±1.66	0±1.96	67±25	1.03±5.15	5.13±3.20	167±53	2.06±2.57	0.00±3.00
	<3.26	<3.21	<108	<5.30	<10.4		<6.27	<4.92
VARF	0.08±1.29	1.23±1.37	1.3±15	0.62±3.98	3.19±2.76	0±20	2.46±2.42	0±19
	<2.12	<3.48	<25.9	<7.15	<7.72	<32.8	<6.43	<31.2
VARH	0±2.02	0±2.59	0±22	5.8±6.3	0.47±3.57	0±31	4.22±3.0	0±26
	<3.31	<4.25	<36	<16.1	<6.32	<51	<9.14	<43
VARI	0±1.34	0.67±1.2	3.6±16	2.4±3.78	1.55±2.15	0±17	1.39±1.73	0±13
	<2.20	<2.64	<29.8	<8.6	<5.08	<28	<4.23	<21
VARJ	0.29±1.46	0±1.87	17.6±17.3	4.48±4.05	0.37±1.69	0±23	3.13±2.33	0±17
	<2.68	<3.07	<46.0	<11.1	<3.14	<38	<6.95	<28

Table 2. Titanium sponge and electron beam melting plate background (mBq∙kg^-¹)

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Table 2. Titanium sponge and electron beam melting plate background (mBq∙kg^-¹)

样品编号Sample	⁶⁰Co	¹³⁷Cs	⁴⁰K	²³²Th-²²⁸Ac	²³²Th-²²⁸Th	²³⁸U-²²⁶Ra	²³⁸U-²²²Rn	²³⁵U
T4	0.00±2.15	0.00±2.05	31.6±24.5	3.00±4.88	0.32±1.78	14.3±35.7	0.37±2.12	0.83±4.28
	<3.53	<3.36	<71.8	<11.0	<3.24	<72.8	<3.85	<7.85
T5	1.48±2.04	0.00±2.23	47.2±26.8	0.00±5.89	4.46±3.34	0.00±18.6	0.14±2.40	15.8±5.15
	<4.83	<3.66	<91.2	<9.66	<9.94	<30.5	<4.08
T8	0.00±0.77	0.37±0.77	0.00±7.52	0.00±2.24	1.22±1.46	0.00±14.0	1.93±1.28	18.1±27.9
	<1.26	<1.63	<12.3	<3.67	<3.61	<23.0	<4.03	<63.9
T9	0.00±1.29	0.04±1.12	0.00±7.07	0.34±1.95	0.19±0.56	5.58±4.15	0.17±0.68	0.00±1.32
	<2.12	<1.88	<11.6	<3.54	<1.11	<12.4	<1.29	<2.16
T10	0.00±0.24	0.00±0.29	0.03±0.26	0.13±0.69	2.52±0.50	8.73±5.46	0.07±0.29	0.00±3.57
	<0.39	<0.48	<0.46	<1.26		<17.7	<0.55	<5.85
ST11	0.00±2.60	1.17±1.80	3.59±17.5	3.23±5.31	4.67±3.49	52.0±23.2	23.1±3.69	0.00±21.0
	<4.26	<4.12	<32.3	<11.9	<10.4	<90.0		<34.4
T13	0.00±0.09	0.20±0.13	1.96±1.86	0.42±0.37	1.40±0.30	20.1±5.30	0.05±0.14	0.37±0.57
	<0.15	<0.41	<5.01	<1.03			<0.28	<1.30
ST14	0.00±0.22	0.00±0.26	0.00±2.04	1.24±0.61	0.00±0.23	9.06±6.20	0.28±0.31	3.33±4.57
	<0.36	<0.43	<3.35	<2.24	<0.38	<19.2	<0.79	<10.8
T23	0.09±0.06	0.00±0.05	0.00±0.84	0.04±0.22	0.89±0.24	18.4±3.9	0.29±0.18	0.01±0.16
	<0.19	<0.08	<1.38	<0.40			<0.59	<0.27
T26	0.00±0.09	0.00±0.08	0.00±1.13	0.16±0.32	1.03±0.32	20.6±4.83	0.14±0.16	1.57±0.65
	<0.15	<0.13	<1.85	<0.78			<0.40	<2.64

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Aug. 1, 2022

Accepted: --

Published Online: Nov. 25, 2022

The Author Email: MENG Yue (mengyue@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2022.hjs.45.110201

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Table 1. Radioactive background of the sample from vacuum consumable electrode arc furnace (mBq∙kg-1)

Table 1. Radioactive background of the sample from vacuum consumable electrode arc furnace (mBq∙kg-1)

Table 2. Titanium sponge and electron beam melting plate background (mBq∙kg-1)

Table 2. Titanium sponge and electron beam melting plate background (mBq∙kg-1)

Table 1. Radioactive background of the sample from vacuum consumable electrode arc furnace (mBq∙kg^-¹)

Table 1. Radioactive background of the sample from vacuum consumable electrode arc furnace (mBq∙kg^-¹)

Table 2. Titanium sponge and electron beam melting plate background (mBq∙kg^-¹)

Table 2. Titanium sponge and electron beam melting plate background (mBq∙kg^-¹)