Distributions of Uranium-Series Radionuclides in Rock and Migration Rate of Uranium at the Koongarra Uranium Deposit, Australia

Radiochimica Acta

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 319-325

  Yanase, Nobuyuki ^a   Sato, Tsutomu ^a   Iida, Yoshihisa ^a   Sekine, Keiichi ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2d distribution; Activity ratio; Alpha and gamma spectrometry; Natural analogue; Uranium series radionuclides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007363008     PISSN: 00338230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/ract.1998.82.special-issue.319     Document Type: Article

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