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240Pu/239Pu Atom Ratio as A Fingerprint of Local and Tropospheric Fallout Due to Events Involving Nuclear Weapons: A Review |
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PP: 65-77 |
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doi:10.18576/jrna/030201
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Rafael García-Tenorio,
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Abstract |
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| A series of events involving nuclear weapons (atmospheric weapon tests, explosions in military use, aircraft accidents….) have generated the dissemination at local and/or regional scale of radionuclide debris characterized in each case by a characteristic 240Pu/239Pu atom ratio. This ratio could be used as a fingerprint to evaluate the weight of a particular event in the contamination of an environmental compartment.
In this paper is compiled a review of the 240Pu/239Pu atom ratios characterising the great majority of events involving nuclear weapons where dissemination of Pu isotopes in the environment were generated. Only data found in the open literature are included, although as a challenging issue some few events with no available public data are also presented. |
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