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- Title
Uncovering uranium isotopic heterogeneity of fuel pellets from the fifth collaborative materials exercise of The Nuclear Forensics International Technical Working Group.
- Authors
Jovanovic, Slobodan V.; Weber, Peter K.; Pidduck, Allan J.; Gaffney, Amy M.; Girard, Pascal; Pointurier, Fabien; Hedberg, Magnus; Simons, Andrew J.; Stebelkov, Vladimir; Kell, Tara; Knight, Kimberly; Parsons-Davis, Tashi; Kristo, Michael; Williams, Ross W.; Treinen, Kerri C.; Montgomery, Neil J.; King, Josh; Wickenden, Amethyst; Knight, Darrell; Fauré, Anne-Laure
- Abstract
In 2017, the Nuclear Forensics International Technical Working Group organized their fifth Collaborative Materials Exercise (CMX-5). The exercise samples were two uranium dioxide fuel pellets manufactured from the same starting materials by different processes to have similar bulk isotopic composition, but different spatial uranium isotopic distributions. Sets of identical materials were sent to all participating laboratories, who then utilized their existing nuclear forensic capabilities to independently analyse fuel pellets and identify similarities and differences of the materials' characteristics. Here we present and compare the ability of different analytical techniques to spatially resolve uranium isotopic heterogeneity in the uranium oxide fuel pellets.
- Subjects
URANIUM isotopes; WOOD pellets; RADIOACTIVE substances; URANIUM mining; INDUCTIVELY coupled plasma mass spectrometry; URANIUM as fuel
- Publication
Journal of Radioanalytical & Nuclear Chemistry, 2020, Vol 326, Issue 3, p1853
- ISSN
0236-5731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10967-020-07470-5