Measurement of production date (age) of nanogram amount of uranium
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VARGA, Zsolt, WALLENIUS, Maria, NICHOLL, Adrian, MAYER, Klaus, BALAN, Ionel, BENEA, Vasile. Measurement of production date (age) of nanogram amount of uranium. In: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2019, nr. 3(322), pp. 1585-1591. ISSN 0236-5731. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06705-4
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Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Numărul 3(322) / 2019 / ISSN 0236-5731 /ISSNe 1588-2780

Measurement of production date (age) of nanogram amount of uranium

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06705-4

Pag. 1585-1591

Varga Zsolt1, Wallenius Maria1, Nicholl Adrian1, Mayer Klaus1, Balan Ionel2, Benea Vasile2
 
1 European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Karlsruhe,
2 National Agency for Regulation of Nuclear and Radiological Activities
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 14 martie 2023


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JRC-Karlsruhe obtained a swipe sample from a highly enriched uranium seizure, which had taken place in 2011. Due to the very low amount of uranium (nanograms) a new method needed to be developed to determine the U production date (age). The particles on the swipe were collected on a pyrolytic graphite planchet using a vacuum impactor and they were subsequently leached with ccHNO3. The “bulk” U isotopic composition (235U: 72.51 ± 0.03 wt%) and the production date (December 1992 ± 1 year) determined by MC-ICP-MS indicated that the material showed similarity with two other HEU cases seized earlier in Europe.

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Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, Nuclear forensics, Production date, Swipe sample, uranium