Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy offers great promise as a probe of electronic structure in heavy element systems, yet until recently NMR studies of solids containing actinide isotopes have been constrained by the inability to perform high resolution experiments on radioactive samples.  New approaches for securely containing samples during NMR measurements have been introduced in the past few years, and now several groups have begun to apply modern magic-angle-spinning experiments on hazardous radioactive materials, acquiring data of interest to nuclear waste form development, environmental remediation research, nuclear medicine, and fundamental electronic structure theory.  The sealed probe technology developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will be described, and recent applications of MAS methods to radioactive materials presented.

High resolution NMR spectroscopy of radioactive solids

247th National Meeting (2014)

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