Determination of plutonium from different sources in environmental samples using alpha-spectrometry and AMS

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

Volumn 268, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1269-1272

  Bisinger, T ^a   Hippler, S ^a   Michel, R ^a   Wacker, L ^b   Synal, H A ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpha spectrometry; AMS; Chernobyl; Fallout; Plutonium

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ACTIVITY RATIOS; ALPHA SPECTROMETRY; AMS; BETA-EMITTING RADIONUCLIDES; CHEMICAL YIELDS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHERNOBYL FALLOUT; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; EXTRACTION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; SENSITIVE METHOD; SPECTROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS;

FALLOUT; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

PLUTONIUM;

EID: 77949900953     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.10.150     Document Type: Article

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