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The AMS analysis of 129I and 135Cs: Development of tools for oceanographic tracing and pollution source identification

  • 1. IsoTrace Laboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (Canada)
  • 2. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)
  • 3. International Atomic Energy Agency, Marine Environmental Laboratory, Monaco (Monaco)

Description

The development of the accelerator mass spectrometer analysis 129I and its applications to oceanographic tracing from the point source releases by nuclear fuel reprocessing plants is reviewed. Some new data for 129I concentrations in the Mediterranean Sea are presented. The uses of Cs isotope information in conjunction with 129I data is examined and two possible strategies for the analysis of Cs isotopes by AMS are discussed: a) the sputtering of Cs+ ions using negative sputtering beams followed by charge changing to negative ions and b) the use of a resonant transfer canal to produce Cs-. (author)

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Marine pollution. Proceedings of an international symposium

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Marine pollution. Proceedings of an international symposium
Imprint Pagination
711 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 243-248
ISSN
1011-4289
Report number
IAEA-TECDOC--1094

Conference

Title
International symposium on marine pollution
Dates
5-9 Oct 1998
Place
Monaco (Monaco)

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant N0014-95-1-0482; Contract MAS3-CT95-0021
Notes
28 refs, 1 fig., 2 tabs
Secondary number(s)
IAEA-SM--354/105