Isotopic ratio of Pu released from fuel cycle facilities - importance of radiochemically pure 236Pu as a tracer

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2001, Pages 31-46

  Yamana, Hajimu ^a   Yamamoto, Toshihisa ^b   Moriyama, Hirotake ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

236Pu; 237Np; 238Pu; Electron LINAC; Environment; Fuel cycle facility; Isotope production; Isotopic composition; Plutonium; Pu

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956765477     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(01)80005-X     Document Type: Article

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