Abstract
This paper describes the most common presently used methods for detecting uranium and plutonium isotopes after their introduction to environment. Known isotope ratios of U and Pu in different nuclear events are important tool for characterizing the sources of nuclear material. Detection techniques both in field and in laboratory are presented, as well as different models that can be used for identifying the origin and age of the nuclear material. Identification of the source of nuclear material in environmental samples is needed for estimating the quality and quantity of the nuclear hazard. This information is essential in risk assessment and crisis management, in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) research after e.g. a terrorist attack, in radioecology and environmental radioactivity research.
(c) 2020 China Ordnance Society. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Defence technology |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 728-740 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISSN | 2214-9147 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2021 |
| MoE publication type | A2 Review article in a scientific journal |
Fields of Science
- 116 Chemical sciences
- nuclear particles
- Pu isotope ratio
- U isotope ratio
- CBRN
- radioecology
- nuclear event
- nuclear accident
- CBRN
- Nuclear contamination
- Plutonium isotope ratios
- Uranium isotope ratios
- Nuclear fingerprinting
- Nuclear particle
- IONIZATION MASS-SPECTROMETER
- ABLATION ICP-MS
- HOT PARTICLES
- RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES
- TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
- ALPHA-SPECTROMETRY
- PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES
- AGE-DETERMINATION
- MICRO-XRF
- NUCLEAR FORENSICS