Radiochemical separations and experimental measurements of short-lived fission products from 14 MeV irradiation of depleted uranium
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Lawrence R. Greenwood; Bruce Pierson; Judah I. Friese; Leah M. Arrigo; Lori A. Metz
- Source
- Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 318:353-360
- Subject
- Fission products
Materials science
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Fission
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Radiochemistry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Nuclear data
Fission product yield
010403 inorganic & nuclear chemistry
01 natural sciences
Pollution
0104 chemical sciences
Analytical Chemistry
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
0103 physical sciences
Depleted uranium
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Neutron
Irradiation
Spectroscopy
- Language
- ISSN
- 1588-2780
0236-5731
This work focused on the experimental analysis of depleted uranium irradiated with 14 MeV neutrons to obtain fission yields for 20 fission products with half-lives ranging from 16.8 h to 30.1 years. Several analytes were identified where improvements to the available nuclear data would be beneficial. The results obtained from this experiment could be used to make improvements to cumulative fission yield data once confirmatory measurements are made. The required separations will be described along with a comparison to the reported Evaluated Nuclear Data File fission yields and other experimental measurements.