Simple Method for Depleted Uranium Determination

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Bikit, Istvan [1 ]
Slivka, Jaroslav [1 ]
Mrdja, Dusan [1 ]
Zikic-Todorovic, Natasa [1 ]
Curcic, Sofija [1 ]
Varga, Ester [1 ]
Veskovic, Miroslav [1 ]
Conkic, Ljiljana [1 ]
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[1] Institute of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg D. Obradovica 4, Novi Sad, Serbia
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Gamma rays - Nuclear radiation spectroscopy - Radium;
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10.1143/jjap.42.5269
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When the issue of depleted uranium (DU) presence in the environment emerged, methods for analytical discrimination of DU against natural uranium should be developed. We present here a simple gamma-spectrometric method, based on the 238U226Ra activity (non) equilibrium. The detection limit of the method for DU is of the order of magnitude of 10 Bq/kg (for about 50 ks counting), thus the method is appropriate for the determination of small amounts (≈100 Bq/kg) of DU in environmental samples. The method is tested on about 90 soil samples.
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