Plutonium and uranium contamination in soils from former nuclear weapon test sites in Australia

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

Volumn 294, Issue , 2013, Pages 642-646

  Child, D P ^a,b   Hotchkis, M A C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

233U; 236U; Australia; Contamination; Fallout; Montebello; Nuclear; Plutonium; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION PRODUCTS; ALPHA SPECTROMETRY; ANTARES; AUSTRALIA; FIELD SURVEYS; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GLOBAL FALLOUT; IN-SITU PRODUCTION; ISOTOPIC CONCENTRATIONS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; MONTEBELLO; NUCLEAR; RADIATION LABORATORY; SOIL SAMPLE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TEST SITE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ALPHA PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; CONTAMINATION; FALLOUT; FISSION PRODUCTS; ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PLUTONIUM; SOIL SURVEYS; URANIUM;

SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 84870940149     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2012.05.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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