234U/238U isotope ratios in groundwater from Southern Nevada: A comparison of alpha counting and magnetic sector ICP-MS

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 350, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 248-260

  Cizdziel, James ^a   Farmer, Dennis ^b   Hodge, Vernon ^a   Lindley, Kazumasa ^a   Stetzenbach, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

234U 238U; Alpha spectrometry; Groundwater; ICP MS; Nevada Test Site; Nye County

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISPOSAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; URANIUM;

234U/ 238U; ALPHA SPECTROMETRY; ICP-MS; NEVADA TEST SITE; NYE COUNTY;

ISOTOPES;

GROUND WATER; URANIUM 234; URANIUM 238; WELL WATER; FRESH WATER; URANIUM;

GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPIC RATIO; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; URANIUM ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; ENERGY; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SPRING; UNITED STATES; VOLCANO; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; MAGNETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEVADA; RADIATION MONITORING; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 26844542546     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.12.014     Document Type: Article

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