Year
2000
Abstract
For several years commercial and environmental concerns have been leading our analytical strategy toward improvement of our job, with enhanced productivity and reliability, shorter delay and less waste. The trend is also to improve accuracy of accountancy analyses as much as reasonably achievable. Our quality control plan has been built to ensure that we actually get the best achievable analytical results. However this is not the ultimate goal of our efforts: we have to come closer and closer to the ”true” amount of material passing through the process Material Balance Area. Conceptual aspects of “true” amount have been widely discussed among safeguard specialists. On these theoretical bases we will describe a number of practical operational dispositions that contribute to improve our IDMS determinations: ?= how to make the best use of available reference materials, ?= how to choose the best control parameters… The knowledge of metrological Institutions in these fields has to