Plutonium isotope measurements from across continental Australia

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

Volumn 294, Issue , 2013, Pages 636-641

  Tims, Stephen G ^a   Fifield, L Keith ^a   Hancock, Gary J ^b   Lal, Rajeev R ^a   Hoo, Wee T ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

AMS; Fallout; Isotope ratios; Plutonium

Indexed keywords

AMS; AUSTRALIA; ISOTOPE RATIO; NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; TEST SITE;

FALLOUT; ISOTOPES; PLUTONIUM;

NUCLEAR WEAPONS;

EID: 84870940797     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2012.07.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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