Published August 2003
| Version v1
Journal article
Simple method for depleted uranium determination
Creators
- 1. Univ. of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Inst. of Physics (Serbia and Montenegro)
Description
When the issue of depleted uranium (DU) presence in the environment emerged, methods for analytical discrimination of DU against natural uranium should be developed. We present here a simple gamma-spectrometric method, based on the 238U-226Ra activity (non) equilibrium. The detection limit of the method for DU is of the order of magnitude of 10 Bq/kg (for about 50ks counting), thus the method is appropriate for the determination of small amounts (≅100 Bq/kg) of DU in environmental samples. The method is tested on about 90 soil samples. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. Part 1, Regular Papers, Short Notes and Review Papers
- Journal Volume
- 42
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. 5269-5273
- ISSN
- 0021-4922
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Japan
- Country of Input or Organization
- Japan
- INIS RN
- 34074498
- Subject category
- S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DEPLETED URANIUM; EQUILIBRIUM; GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY; LOW LEVEL COUNTING; QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS; RADIUM 226; SENSITIVITY; SOILS; TRACE AMOUNTS; URANIUM 238
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ACTINIDES; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CARBON 14 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DETECTION; ELEMENTS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HEAVY ION DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; KINETICS; METALS; NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM ISOTOPES; SPECTROSCOPY; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; URANIUM; URANIUM ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 11 refs., 2 figs., 3 tabs.