Characterization of Pu concentration and its isotopic composition in a reference fallout material

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1139-1144

  Zhang, Yongsan ^a,b,c   Zheng, Jian ^b   Yamada, Masatoshi ^b   Wu, Fengchang ^a   Igarashi, Yasuhito ^d   Hirose, Katsumi ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acid leaching; Host phase; Pu isotopes; Reference fallout material; Sequential extraction; SF ICP MS; Total digestion

Indexed keywords

ACID LEACHING; HOST PHASE; PU ISOTOPES; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SF-ICP-MS;

ATOMS; CESIUM; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; EXTRACTION; FALLOUT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM ALLOYS; POSITIVE IONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

PLUTONIUM;

CESIUM 137; IRON OXIDE; MANGANESE OXIDE; ORGANIC MATTER; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; PLUTONIUM 241; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 90; SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DILUTION; FALLOUT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEACHING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC MATTER; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; RADIONUCLIDE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLOUT; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; JAPAN; LEACHING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; REFERENCE VALUE;

JAPAN; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOISOTOPES; REFERENCE VALUES;

JAPAN;

EID: 73149095795     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.11.058     Document Type: Article

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