Publications
AMS measurements of long-lived radionuclides produced in fusion and fission environments
- Author(s)
- Anton Wallner, Iris Dillmann, Thomas Faestermann, Franz Käppeler, Axel Klix, Gunther Korschinek, Claudia Lederer, Georg Rugel, Peter Steier
- Abstract
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) represents a complementary technique for the detection of long-lived radionuclides through ultra-low isotope ratio measurements. In many cases, counting atoms rather than measuring decay products yields much higher sensitivities. For a few cases the powerful combination of activation and subsequent AMS detection is exemplified; typical radionuclides of interest have half-lives between some years and up to hundred million years. Lack of information exists for a list of nuclides for quantifying
production in fusion and fission environments as pointed out by nuclear data requests. A brief overview on detection limits at a typical AMS facility, the VERA facility, and some applications for selected long-lived radionuclides are given.
- Organisation(s)
- Isotope Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Technische Universität München, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
- Volume
- 23883
- Pages
- 171-176
- No. of pages
- 6
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2787/23116
- Publication date
- 2010
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103005 Atomic physics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/ams-measurements-of-longlived-radionuclides-produced-in-fusion-and-fission-environments(39e7ae6d-02aa-4948-9c14-a13246dfaa23).html