Uranium from German Nuclear Power Projects of the 1940s— A Nuclear Forensic Investigation

Here we present a nuclear forensic study of uranium from German nuclear projects which used different geometries of metallic uranium fuel.3b,d, 4 Through measurement of the (230)Th/(234)U ratio, we could determine that the material had been produced in the period from 1940 to 1943. To determine the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Mayer, Klaus, Wallenius, Maria, Lützenkirchen, Klaus, Horta, Joan, Nicholl, Adrian, Rasmussen, Gert, van Belle, Pieter, Varga, Zsolt, Buda, Razvan, Erdmann, Nicole, Kratz, Jens-Volker, Trautmann, Norbert, Fifield, L Keith, Tims, Stephen G, Fröhlich, Michaela B, Steier, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: WILEY-VCH Verlag 2015
Materias:
Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4678420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26501922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201504874
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Sumario:Here we present a nuclear forensic study of uranium from German nuclear projects which used different geometries of metallic uranium fuel.3b,d, 4 Through measurement of the (230)Th/(234)U ratio, we could determine that the material had been produced in the period from 1940 to 1943. To determine the geographical origin of the uranium, the rare-earth-element content and the (87)Sr/(86)Sr ratio were measured. The results provide evidence that the uranium was mined in the Czech Republic. Trace amounts of (236)U and (239)Pu were detected at the level of their natural abundance, which indicates that the uranium fuel was not exposed to any major neutron fluence.

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