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Plutonium Signatures in a Dated Sediment Core as a Tool to Reveal Nuclear Sources in the Baltic Sea
[Image: see text] Plutonium distribution was studied in an undisturbed sediment core sampled from the Tvären bay in the vicinity of the Studsvik nuclear facility in Sweden. The complete analysis, including minor isotopes, of the Pu isotope composition ((238)Pu, (239)Pu, (240)Pu, (241)Pu, (242)Pu, an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9910043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36690010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07437 |
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author | López-Lora, Mercedes Olszewski, Grzegorz Chamizo, Elena Törnquist, Per Pettersson, Håkan Eriksson, Mats |
author_facet | López-Lora, Mercedes Olszewski, Grzegorz Chamizo, Elena Törnquist, Per Pettersson, Håkan Eriksson, Mats |
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description | [Image: see text] Plutonium distribution was studied in an undisturbed sediment core sampled from the Tvären bay in the vicinity of the Studsvik nuclear facility in Sweden. The complete analysis, including minor isotopes, of the Pu isotope composition ((238)Pu, (239)Pu, (240)Pu, (241)Pu, (242)Pu, and (244)Pu) allowed us to establish the Pu origin in this area of the Baltic Sea and to reconstruct the Studsvik aquatic release history. The results show highly enriched (239)Pu, probably originating from the Swedish nuclear program in the 1960s and 1970s and the handling of high burn-up nuclear fuel in the later years. In addition, the (244)Pu/(239)Pu atomic ratio for the global fallout period between 1958 and 1965 is suggested to be (7.94 ± 0.31)·10(–5). In the bottom layer of the sediment, dated 1953–1957, we detected a higher average (244)Pu/(239)Pu ratio of (1.51 ± 0.11)·10(–4), indicating the possible impact of the first US thermonuclear tests (1952–1958). |
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spelling | pubmed-99100432023-02-10 Plutonium Signatures in a Dated Sediment Core as a Tool to Reveal Nuclear Sources in the Baltic Sea López-Lora, Mercedes Olszewski, Grzegorz Chamizo, Elena Törnquist, Per Pettersson, Håkan Eriksson, Mats Environ Sci Technol [Image: see text] Plutonium distribution was studied in an undisturbed sediment core sampled from the Tvären bay in the vicinity of the Studsvik nuclear facility in Sweden. The complete analysis, including minor isotopes, of the Pu isotope composition ((238)Pu, (239)Pu, (240)Pu, (241)Pu, (242)Pu, and (244)Pu) allowed us to establish the Pu origin in this area of the Baltic Sea and to reconstruct the Studsvik aquatic release history. The results show highly enriched (239)Pu, probably originating from the Swedish nuclear program in the 1960s and 1970s and the handling of high burn-up nuclear fuel in the later years. In addition, the (244)Pu/(239)Pu atomic ratio for the global fallout period between 1958 and 1965 is suggested to be (7.94 ± 0.31)·10(–5). In the bottom layer of the sediment, dated 1953–1957, we detected a higher average (244)Pu/(239)Pu ratio of (1.51 ± 0.11)·10(–4), indicating the possible impact of the first US thermonuclear tests (1952–1958). American Chemical Society 2023-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9910043/ /pubmed/36690010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07437 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Permits the broadest form of re-use including for commercial purposes, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | López-Lora, Mercedes Olszewski, Grzegorz Chamizo, Elena Törnquist, Per Pettersson, Håkan Eriksson, Mats Plutonium Signatures in a Dated Sediment Core as a Tool to Reveal Nuclear Sources in the Baltic Sea |
title | Plutonium
Signatures
in a Dated Sediment Core as a
Tool to Reveal Nuclear Sources in the Baltic Sea |
title_full | Plutonium
Signatures
in a Dated Sediment Core as a
Tool to Reveal Nuclear Sources in the Baltic Sea |
title_fullStr | Plutonium
Signatures
in a Dated Sediment Core as a
Tool to Reveal Nuclear Sources in the Baltic Sea |
title_full_unstemmed | Plutonium
Signatures
in a Dated Sediment Core as a
Tool to Reveal Nuclear Sources in the Baltic Sea |
title_short | Plutonium
Signatures
in a Dated Sediment Core as a
Tool to Reveal Nuclear Sources in the Baltic Sea |
title_sort | plutonium
signatures
in a dated sediment core as a
tool to reveal nuclear sources in the baltic sea |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9910043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36690010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07437 |
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