Title: NIST Team Wins Bronze Medal for Innovative Radioactive Sample Preparation Techniques
A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been awarded a Bronze Medal for their groundbreaking work in developing new instruments and methods for accurately measuring and dispensing milligram-scale radioactive liquid samples. The team, led by Denis Bergeron, Richard Essex, Ryan Fitzgerald, Jacqueline Mann, Shin Muramoto, Svetlana Nour, Gordon Shaw, and R. Michael Verkouteren, has successfully reduced the sample size by two orders of magnitude, enabling the use of millimeter-sized NIST quantum sensors to characterize tiny samples of radioactive material.
This significant advancement in radioactive source preparation has garnered interest from the radionuclide metrology community. The new capability has potential applications beyond NIST, including in the drug and chemical industries and for security applications. The team’s innovative approach to sample preparation and measurement will likely have a lasting impact on the field of radioactive materials characterization and metrology.
Keywords: Metrology, Sensors, Radionuclide, Mass
