Detection of previous neutron irradiation and reprocessing of uranium materials for nuclear forensic purposes

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 516-522

  Varga, Zsolt ^a   Surányi, Gergely ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Illicit trafficking; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Laser ablation; Nuclear forensics; Reprocessing; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACTINIDES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPES; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PHOTORESISTS; PLASMAS; PLUTONIUM; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

ALPHA SPECTROMETRIES; ANALYTICAL METHODS; COUPLED PLASMAS; FUEL PRODUCTIONS; ICP-SFMS; ILLICIT NUCLEAR MATERIALS; ILLICIT TRAFFICKING; ISOTOPE RATIOS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE; NUCLEAR FORENSICS; NUCLEAR MATERIALS; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; REPROCESSING; SAMPLE INTRODUCTIONS;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

PLUTONIUM; URANIUM; URANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; LASER SURGERY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEBULIZATION; NEUTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 59949090725     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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