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Plutonium from Mayak: Measurement of Isotope Ratios and Activities Using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

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Oughton, D
Fifield, L Keith
Day, J P
Cresswell, Richard
di Tada, M.
Salbu, Brit
Strand, Per
Drozcho, Eugeny
Mokrov, Yuri

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American Chemical Society

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Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) has been used to measure Pu activities and 240Pu/239Pu isotope ratios in samples contaminated by releases from the Mayak nuclear installation. Determination of Pu isotopes in high-level samples indicated that the ratio

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Environmental Science and Technology

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2037-12-31