Towards the determination of the geographical origin of yellow cake samples by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and chemometrics

Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 451-459

  Sirven, Jean Baptiste ^a   Pailloux, Agnès ^a   M'Baye, Yacine ^a   Coulon, Nadine ^a   Alpettaz, Thierry ^a   Gossé, Stéphane ^a  

^a DEN SAC DPC SECR Laboratory of Nuclear Isotopic and Elementary Analyses   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; LASER DAMAGE; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; METAL REFINING; NUCLEAR FUELS; ORES; PARTICLE SIZE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

CHEMOMETRIC TREATMENTS; CHEMOMETRICS; COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENTS; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; EMISSION LINES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SPECTRUM; FISSILE MATERIALS; GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGINS; HIGH RATES; INPUT DATUM; LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPIES; MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; PRODUCTION SITES; SIMCA MODELS; SOFT INDEPENDENT MODELING OF CLASS ANALOGIES; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTHS; SPECTRAL DATUM; URANIUM ORES;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 63049114250     PISSN: 02679477     EISSN: 13645544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b821405k     Document Type: Article

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