Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1739594 | Journal of Environmental Radioactivity | 2006 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
An isotopic fingerprinting method is presented to determine the origin of unknown nuclear material with forensic importance. Spent nuclear fuel of known origin has been considered as the ‘unknown’ nuclear material in order to demonstrate the method and verify its prediction capabilities. The method compares, using factor analysis, the measured U, Pu isotopic compositions of the ‘unknown’ material with U, Pu isotopic compositions simulating well known spent fuels from a range of commercial nuclear power stations. Then, the ‘unknown’ fuel has the same origin as the commercial fuel with which it exhibits the highest similarity in U, Pu compositions.
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Authors
G. Nicolaou,