Methods for applying plutonium fission track analysis

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2001, Pages 79-89

  Casper Sun, L ^a   Xue, Ying Hua ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Environmental plutonium; Fission track analysis; Fission track etch; Nuclear safeguard device; Plutonium dose assessment; Plutonium urinalysis; Polycarbonate detector; Pooling analysis; Thin film detector

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957004288     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(01)80008-5     Document Type: Article

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