Nuclear Chemistry Laboratory
Staff Publications and Conference Presentations
Recent Publications:
"Study of traces of tritium at the World Trade Center", T.M. Semkow, R.S. Hafner, P.P. Parekh, G.J. Wozniak, D.K. Haines, L. Husain, R.L. Rabun, P.G. Williams, Proceedings of the Symposium on Radioanalytical Methods at the Frontier of Interdisciplinary Research, ACS Symposium Series 868, 218 (2004).
"Sorption of Fission Product Radionuclides, 137Cs and 90Sr, by Savannah River Site Sediments Impregnated with Colloidal Silica", N. Hakem, J. A. Apps, G. J. Moridis and I. AlMahamid, Radiochimica Acta, Vol. 92, p. 419, 2004.
"Multifarious Application of Well-type Germanium Detector", P.P. Parekh, T.M. Semkow, A. Bari, M.A. Torres, D. K. Haines, P.R. Harris, E.M. Fielman, M.E. Kitto, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., Articles, 262(2), 317 (2004).
"Experimental investigation of mass efficiency curve for alpha radioactivity counting using a gas-proportional detector", T.M. Semkow, A. Bari, P.P. Parekh, D.K. Haines, H. Gao, A.N. Bolden, K.S. Dahms, S.C. Scarpitta, R.E. Thern, S. Velazquez, Appl. Rad. Isot. 60, 879 (2004).
"Airborne Activities of Gross Beta, 7Be, and 131I in New York", M.E. Kitto, G.M. Hartt, and E.A. Gillen, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., Articles, 264(2), 387 (2005).
"Interrelationship of Indoor Radon Concentrations, Soil-Gas Flux, and Meteorological Parameters", M.E. Kitto, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., Articles, 264(2), 381 (2005).
"Radionuclide and Chemical Concentrations in Mineral Waters at Saratoga Springs, New York", M.E. Kitto, D. Schneider, P.P. Parekh, and M. Torres, J. Environ. Radioact., 80, 327 (2005).
"Naturally Occurring Radionuclides in Community Water Supplies of New York State", M.E. Kitto and M.S. Kim, Health Phys. 88(3), 253 (2005).
"Modeling of alpha mass-efficiency curve", T.M. Semkow, H.W. Jeter, B. Parsa, P.P. Parekh, D.K. Haines, A. Bari, Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A 538, 790 (2005).
"Airborne 131I at a Background Monitoring Site", M.E. Kitto, E.M. Fielman, S.E. Fielman, and E.A. Gillen, J. Environ. Radioact., 83, 129 (2005).
"Assessment of the Multimedia Mitigation of Radon in New York", M.E. Kitto, Health Phys. 92(5), 449 (2006).
"Radioactivity in Trinitite Six Decades Later", P.P. Parekh, T.M. Semkow, M.A. Torres, D.K. Haines, J.M. Cooper, P.M. Rosenberg, and M.E. Kitto, J. Environ. Radioact., 85, 103 (2006).
"Long-term Monitoring of Radioactivity in Surface Air and Deposition in New York", M.E. Kitto, E.M. Fielman, G.M. Hartt, E.A. Gillen, T.M. Semkow, P.P. Parekh, A. Bari, Health Phys. 90(1), 31 (2006).
"Thermal Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements of Am-243 and Pu-242 Using the New Mini-INCA α and γ Spectroscopy Station", F. Marie, O. Deruelle, G. Fioni, A. Letourneau, Ch. Veyssiere, H. Faust, P. Mutti, I. AlMahamid, Bette Muhammed, Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. Sec A, Vol.556, p. 547, 2006.
"Applied Modeling and Computations in Nuclear Science", T.M. Semkow, S. Pomme, S.M. Jerome, D.J. Strom, Eds., ACS/OUP, Washington, DC, (2007).
"Bayesian inference from the binomial and Poisson processes for multiple sampling" T.M. Semkow, in Applied Modeling and Computations in Nuclear Science, ACS/OUP, Washington, DC, (2007) 335.
"Exponential decay law and nuclear statistics", T.M. Semkow, in Applied Modeling and Computations in Nuclear Science, ACS/OUP, Washington, DC, (2007) 42.
"Modeling the effects of the Trinity test" T.M. Semkow, P.P. Parekh, D.K. Haines, in Applied Modeling and Computations in Nuclear Science, ACS Symposium Series", ACS/OUP, Washington, DC, (2007) 142.
Conference Presentations
"Non-Destructive Determination of 224Ra, 226Ra, and 228Ra in Drinking Water by Gamma Spectroscopy", C.M. Brown, presented at 2nd Radiochemistry Workshop, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, September 2004.
"Radon Survey of Recent Home Buyers", M.E. Kitto, presented at International Radon Symposium, American Assoc. of Radon Scientists and Technologists, Providence, RI, November 2004.
"Emissions from Granite Countertops", M.E. Kitto and J.G. Green, presented at International Radon Symposium, American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists, San Diego, CA, September 2005.
"Bayesian approach to nuclear statistics" T.M. Semkow, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, European Commission, Geel, Belgium, June (2007), invited.
"Analysis of Trinitite and reevaluation of the historic Trinity Test" T.M. Semkow, P.P. Parekh, D.K. Haines, Northeastern New York American Nuclear Society Meeting, Troy, NY, February (2007), invited.