Identification of uranium signatures relevant for nuclear safeguards and forensics

The paper describes the applicability of different characteristics (signatures) in nuclear safeguards and forensics for assessment of uranium material provenance in terms of production process. The study follows a uranium ore concentrate production from an ore to a U(3)O(8) product. It turned out th...

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Autores principales: Varga, Zsolt, Krajkó, Judit, Peńkin, Maxim, Novák, Márton, Eke, Zsuzsanna, Wallenius, Maria, Mayer, Klaus
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Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5446562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28596631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5247-5
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description The paper describes the applicability of different characteristics (signatures) in nuclear safeguards and forensics for assessment of uranium material provenance in terms of production process. The study follows a uranium ore concentrate production from an ore to a U(3)O(8) product. It turned out that rare-earth elemental pattern, radiochronometry (age of ore body and material production date), sulphur and organic impurities are useful to find out the origin or history of the material, while certain trace-elements and isotopics of Pb or Sr were found to be inconclusive. The results will be important to understand the signatures in nuclear safeguards and forensics. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10967-017-5247-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-54465622017-06-06 Identification of uranium signatures relevant for nuclear safeguards and forensics Varga, Zsolt Krajkó, Judit Peńkin, Maxim Novák, Márton Eke, Zsuzsanna Wallenius, Maria Mayer, Klaus J Radioanal Nucl Chem Article The paper describes the applicability of different characteristics (signatures) in nuclear safeguards and forensics for assessment of uranium material provenance in terms of production process. The study follows a uranium ore concentrate production from an ore to a U(3)O(8) product. It turned out that rare-earth elemental pattern, radiochronometry (age of ore body and material production date), sulphur and organic impurities are useful to find out the origin or history of the material, while certain trace-elements and isotopics of Pb or Sr were found to be inconclusive. The results will be important to understand the signatures in nuclear safeguards and forensics. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10967-017-5247-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Netherlands 2017-04-20 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5446562/ /pubmed/28596631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5247-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 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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