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J Radioanal Nucl Chem. 2016;307:1919-1926. doi: 10.1007/s10967-015-4418-5. Epub 2015 Sep 04.

Plutonium age dating (production date measurement) by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry

Zsolt Varga, Adrian Nicholl, Maria Wallenius, Klaus Mayer

Affiliations

  1. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Transuranium Elements, Postfach 2340, 76125 Karlsruhe, Germany.

PMID: 27003957 PMCID: PMC4779457 DOI: 10.1007/s10967-015-4418-5

Abstract

This paper describes rapid methods for the determination of the production date (age dating) of plutonium (Pu) materials by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) for nuclear forensic and safeguards purposes. One of the presented methods is a rapid, direct measurement without chemical separation using

Keywords: Age dating; Nuclear forensics; Nuclear safeguards; Plutonium; Radiochronometry

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