Determination of the 243Cm/244Cm ratio alpha spectrometry and spectral deconvolution in environmental samples exposed to discharges from the nuclear fuel cycle

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 49, Issue 9-11, 1998, Pages 1283-1288

  Mitchell, P I ^a   Holm, E ^b   Leon Vintro L ^a   Condren, O M ^a   Roos, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURIUM; CURIUM 243; CURIUM 244; NUCLEAR FUEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMERICIUM;

ALPHA RADIATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FALLOUT; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SPECTROMETRY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIOMETRY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOIL POLLUTANT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AMERICIUM; CURIUM; GREAT BRITAIN; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RADIOMETRY; RUSSIA; SIBERIA; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

ALPHA PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SPECTRAL DECONVOLUTION;

CURIUM;

EID: 0032148398     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(97)10061-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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