Identification of uranium signatures relevant for nuclear safeguards and forensics
The paper describes the applicability of different characteristics (signatures) in nuclear safeguards and forensics for assessment of uranium material provenance in terms of production process. The study follows a uranium ore concentrate production from an ore to a U3O8 product. It turned out that rare-earth elemental pattern, radiochronometry (age of ore body and material production date), sulphur and organic impurities are useful to find out the origin or history of the material, while certain trace-elements and isotopics of Pb or Sr were found to be inconclusive. The results will be important to understand the signatures in nuclear safeguards and forensics.
VARGA Zsolt;
KRAJKO Judit;
PENKIN Maxim;
NOVAK Marton;
EKE Zsuzsanna;
WALLENIUS Maria;
MAYER Klaus;
2024-10-22
SPRINGER
JRC105865
0236-5731 (online),
https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-017-5247-5?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorAssignedToIssue,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC105865,
10.1007/s10967-017-5247-5 (online),
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