Published July 2008 | Version v1
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Identifying reprocessed uranium by gamma spectrometry

  • 1. Institute of Isotopes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary)

Description

It is shown that low background gamma spectrometry can be successfully used to identify uranium samples made from reprocessed uranium, by measuring the activity of 232U. It is demonstrated that 232U is always present in enriched or depleted uranium samples, but in reprocessed uranium the activity of 232U is at least 100 times higher than in other uranium samples of the same 235U enrichment. (author)

Part of:
Illicit nuclear trafficking: Collective experience and the way forward. Proceedings of an international conference

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
IAEA
Imprint Place
Vienna (Austria)
ISBN
978-92-0-103408-3
Imprint Title
Illicit nuclear trafficking: Collective experience and the way forward. Proceedings of an international conference
Imprint Pagination
884 p.
Series
Proceedings series
Journal Page Range
p. 675-680
ISSN
0074-1884

Conference

Title
Collective experience and the way forward
Acronym
International conference on illicit nuclear trafficking
Dates
19-22 Nov 2007
Place
Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Optional Information

Notes
5 refs, 2 figs, 2 tabs Imprint:CD-ROM attached containing the presentations of most of the papers presented orally, as well as the complete text of the printed volume
Secondary number(s)
IAEA-CN--154/030P