Published 2008 | Version v1
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Natural and anthropogenic 236U in environmental samples

Creators

  • 1. VERA Laboratory, Fakultaet fuer Physik - Isotopenforschung, Universitaet Wien (Austria)
  • 2. TU Wien (Austria)
  • 3. ANU, Canberra (Australia)
  • 4. SUN, Napoli (Italy)
  • 5. IRMM, Geel (Belgium)
  • 6. Universitaet Wien (Austria)
  • 7. ETH Zuerich (Switzerland)
  • 8. SUERC, Glasgow (United Kingdom)

Description

At the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA) we have investigated 236U/U isotopic ratios in various environmental samples and found natural isotopic ratios: in uranium reagents separated before the onset of human nuclear activities, in uranium ores from various origins, and in water from a subsurface well with high uranium content in Bad Gastein, Austria. Whereas river sediments near the shut-down Garigliano nuclear power plant (Southern Italy) were close to the sensitivity limit of 2 x 107 atoms 236U per sample (1 g dry mass or 1 L of water), an anthropogenic contamination was clearly visible in soil and rivulet samples from Salzburg, Austria. The paper combines newly measured and previously published data to provide a survey of anthropogenic and natural 236U in the environment, and compares the results with calculated estimates

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Identifiers

URL
http://www.dpg-tagungen.de/index_en.html;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Volume
43
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
2008 DPG spring meeting. Jointly spring meeting of the working group AMOP of the professional associations atomic physics, short time physics, mass spectrometry, molecule physics, plasma physics, quantum optics and photonics and the professional associations hadrons and cores, environmental physics
Original Conference Title
DPG Fruehjahrstagung 2008. Gemeinsame Fruehjahrstagung des Arbeitskreises AMOP mit den Fachverbaenden Atomphysik, Kurzzeitphysik, Massenspektrometrie, Molekuelphysik, Plasmaphysik, Quantenoptik und Photonik und den Fachverbaenden Hadronen und Kerne, Umweltphysik
Dates
10-14 Mar 2008
Place
Darmstadt (Germany)

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
Germany
INIS RN
40031482
Subject category
S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
AUSTRIA; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS; GARIGLIANO REACTOR; GROUND WATER; ISOTOPE RATIO; ITALY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; URANIUM; URANIUM 236; URANIUM ORES
Descriptors DEC
ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ACTINIDES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BWR TYPE REACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELEMENTS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EUROPE; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; METALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEI; ORES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; SURFACE WATERS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL REACTORS; URANIUM ISOTOPES; WATER; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; WESTERN EUROPE; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

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Notes
Session: MS 4.1 Di 11:00; No further information available