Actinides AMS at CIRCE and236U and Pu measurements of structural and environmental samples from in and around a mothballed nuclear power plant

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

Volumn 294, Issue , 2013, Pages 152-159

  De Cesare, M ^a,b   Fifield, L K ^c   Sabbarese, C ^a,b   Tims, S G ^c   De Cesare, N ^a,b   D'Onofrio, A ^a,b   D'Arco, A ^a   Esposito, A M ^d   Petraglia, A ^a   Roca, V ^b,e   Terrasi, F ^a,b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Società Gestione Impianti Nucleari SoGIN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental and structural samples; Mass and isotopic ratio sensitivities; Pu isotopes

Indexed keywords

DECOMMISSIONING (NUCLEAR REACTORS); ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SILICON DETECTORS;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; BACKGROUND LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL HERITAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; MASS SENSITIVITY; MEASUREMENTS OF; SENSITIVE TECHNIQUES;

ACTINIDES;

EID: 84870946840     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2012.05.020     Document Type: Article

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