Plutonium measurement using accelerator mass spectrometry: Methodology and applications

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2001, Pages 47-62

  Oughton, Deborah ^a   Day, Philip ^b   Fifield, Keith ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry; Arctic; Burn up; Environment; Isotope ratios; Kara Sea; Mayak; Novaya Zemlya; Plutonium; Techa River; Weapons

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956713749     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(01)80006-1     Document Type: Article

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