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Chronology of Pu isotopes and 236 U in an Arctic ice core

Date

Authors

Wendel, Cato Christian

Oughton, D

Lind, O

Skipperud, Lindis

Fifield, L Keith

Isaksson, E

Tims, Stephen

Salbu, Brit

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

In the present work, state of the art isotopic fingerprinting techniques are applied to an Arctic ice core in order to quantify deposition of U and Pu, and to identify possible tropospheric transport of debris from former Soviet Union test sites Semipalat

Keywords

Keywords: Accelerator mass spectrometry; Activity concentration; AMS; Arctic; Atom ratio; Biogeochemical cycle; Ice core; Isotopic fingerprinting; Fallout; Isotopes; Mass spectrometry; Plutonium alloys; Troposphere; Ice; cesium 137; plutonium 239; plutonium 240; ra 236U/239Pu; 240Pu/239Pu; AMS; Arctic; Atom ratio; Ice core

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/73970

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Science of the Total Environment

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.05.054

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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