Setting a limit on anthropogenic sources of atmospheric 81Kr through Atom Trap Trace Analysis

Zappala, J. C.; Bailey, K.; Jiang, W.; Micklich, B.; Mueller, P.; O’Connor, T. P.; Purtschert, R.

doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.02.007

Title: Setting a limit on anthropogenic sources of atmospheric ⁸¹Kr through Atom Trap Trace Analysis

Journal Article · Thu Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Chemical Geology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.02.007· OSTI ID:1356576

Zappala, J. C. ^[1]; Bailey, K. ^[2]; Jiang, W. ^[3]; Micklich, B. ^[2]; Mueller, P. ^[2]; O’Connor, T. P. ^[2]; Purtschert, R. ^[4]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China). School of Nuclear Science and Engineerin
University of Bern (Switzerland). Climate and Environmental Physics Division, Physics Institute

In this study, we place a 2.5% limit on the anthropogenic contribution to the modern abundance of ⁸¹Kr/Kr in the atmosphere at the 90% confidence level. Due to its simple production and transport in the terrestrial environment, ⁸¹Kr (half-life = 230,000 years) is an ideal tracer for old water and ice with mean residence times in the range of 105–106 years. In recent years, ⁸¹Kr-dating has been made available to the earth science community thanks to the development of Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA), a laser-based atom counting technique. Further upgrades and improvements to the ATTA technique now allow us to demonstrate ⁸¹Kr/Kr measurements with relative uncertainties of 1% and place this new limit on anthropogenic ⁸¹Kr. As a result of this limit, we have removed a potential systematic constraint for ⁸¹Kr-dating.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; DEAC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1356576

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1413359

Journal Information:: Chemical Geology, Vol. 453, Issue C; ISSN 0009-2541

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