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

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...

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Autores principales: Varga, Zsolt, Nicholl, Adrian, Wallenius, Maria, Mayer, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4779457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27003957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4418-5
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description 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 (235)U/(239)Pu and (236)U/(240)Pu chronometers. The other method comprises a straightforward extraction chromatographic separation, followed by ICP-MS measurement for the (234)U/(238)Pu, (235)U/(239)Pu, (236)U/(240)Pu and (238)U/(242)Pu chronometers. Age dating results of two plutonium certified reference materials (SRM 946 and 947, currently distributed as NBL CRM 136 and 137) are in good agreement with the archive purification dates.
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spelling pubmed-47794572016-03-19 Plutonium age dating (production date measurement) by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry Varga, Zsolt Nicholl, Adrian Wallenius, Maria Mayer, Klaus J Radioanal Nucl Chem Article 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 (235)U/(239)Pu and (236)U/(240)Pu chronometers. The other method comprises a straightforward extraction chromatographic separation, followed by ICP-MS measurement for the (234)U/(238)Pu, (235)U/(239)Pu, (236)U/(240)Pu and (238)U/(242)Pu chronometers. Age dating results of two plutonium certified reference materials (SRM 946 and 947, currently distributed as NBL CRM 136 and 137) are in good agreement with the archive purification dates. Springer Netherlands 2015-09-04 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4779457/ /pubmed/27003957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4418-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title_short Plutonium age dating (production date measurement) by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
title_sort plutonium age dating (production date measurement) by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4779457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27003957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4418-5
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