Natural and anthropogenic 236U in environmental samples

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 266, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2246-2250

  Steier, Peter ^a   Bichler, Max ^b   Keith Fifield, L ^c   Golser, Robin ^a   Kutschera, Walter ^a   Priller, Alfred ^a   Quinto, Francesca ^d   Richter, Stephan ^e   Srncik, Michaela ^a   Terrasi, Philippo ^d   Wacker, Lukas ^f   Wallner, Anton ^a   Wallner, Gabriele ^a   Wilcken, Klaus M ^g   Maria Wild, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TU WIEN   (Austria)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMS; Natural 236U; Uranium

Indexed keywords

FISSION REACTIONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUTRONS; SEDIMENTS; SPENT FUELS; URANIUM;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY (AMS); ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINATION; CERTIFIED REFERENCE MATERIALS; DETECTION LIMIT; HUMAN NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES;

PARTICLE INTERACTIONS;

EID: 44649147009     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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