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Uranium comparison by means of AMS and ICP-MS and Pu and 137Cs results around an Italian nuclear power plant

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dc.contributor.authorDeCesare, Mario
dc.contributor.authorTims, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorFifield, L Keith
dc.coverage.spatialCanberra
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-30T01:19:40Z
dc.date.available2018-11-30T01:19:40Z
dc.date.createdJune 30-July 2 2014
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.updated2018-11-29T08:21:58Z
dc.description.abstractItaly built and commissioned 4 nuclear power plants between 1958-1978, which delivered a total of 1500 MW. All four were closed down after the Chernobyl accident following a referendum in 1987. One of the plants was Garigliano, commissioned in 1959. This plant used a 160 MW BWR1 (SEU of 2.3 %) and was operational from 1964 to 1979, when it was switched off for maintenance. It was definitively stopped in 1982, and is presently being decommissioned. We report here details on the chemistry procedure and on the measurements for soil samples, collected up to 4.5 km from the Nuclear Plant. A comparison between uranium (238U) concentration as determined by means of AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) and by ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry) techniques respectively at the ANU (Australian National University) and at the Ecowise company in Canberra, Australia, is reported, as well as 236U and 239;240Pu concentration results detected by AMS. 236U/238U and 240Pu/239Pu isotopic ratios by means of AMS are also provided. A contamination from Chernobyl is visible in the 137Cs/239+240Pu activity ratio measurements.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn9781510801776
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/154149
dc.publisherEDP Sciences
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHeavy-Ion Accelerator Symposium, HIAS 2014
dc.sourceEPJ Web of Conferences
dc.titleUranium comparison by means of AMS and ICP-MS and Pu and 137Cs results around an Italian nuclear power plant
dc.typeConference paper
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDeCesare, Mario, College of Science, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationTims, Stephen, College of Science, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationFifield, L Keith, College of Science, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidDeCesare, Mario, u5077084
local.contributor.authoruidTims, Stephen, u4013304
local.contributor.authoruidFifield, L Keith, u8100341
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor020200 - ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, NUCLEAR, PARTICLE AND PLASMA PHYSICS
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB2554
local.identifier.doi10.1051/epjconf/20159100004
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84927583909
local.identifier.thomsonID000358448800004
local.type.statusPublished Version

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