A study of in-line plutonium isotopic analysis for gaseous plutonium hexafluoride
Conference
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OSTI ID:6426378
In-line plutonium isotopic analysis of gaseous plutonium hexafluoride (PuF6) is very important for process control and special nuclear material accountability in any plutonium-isotope-separation process that requires a gaseous phase. Although much effort had been devoted to analyze arbitrary plutonium samples, no isotopic analysis had been done on gaseous PuF6 samples. We have initiated a study on the use of a high-resolution, gamma-ray spectroscopy technique to analyze gaseous plutonium hexafluoride. For the first time, PuF6 gas samples with pressures varying from 0.15 to 31 torr, which were directly fed into a gas cell from a process flow loop, were measured. The isotopic results of these measurements agree very well with those of mass spectrometry measurements of solid PuF4. The precision of a 10-min measurement of a 10-torr reactor-grade PuF6 is 1.5% for STYPu, 0.22% for STZPu, 0.87% for SUPu, and 17.5% for SU Pu.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 6426378
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-87-2293; CONF-870713-34; ON: DE87013145
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Conference
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Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987
· Nucl. Mater. Manage. Annu. Meet. Proc.; (United States)
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OSTI ID:5815322
SEPARATION OF GASEOUS MIXTURES OF URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE AND PLUTONIUM HEXAFLUORIDE BY THERMAL DECOMPOSITION
Technical Report
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Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1962
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OSTI ID:4761852
LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS IN SUPPORT OF FLUID BED FLUORIDE VOLATILITY PROCESSES. PART III. SEPARATION OF GASEOUS MIXTURES OF URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE AND PLUTONIUM HEXAFLUORIDE BY THERMAL DECOMPOSITION
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OSTI ID:4174752
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37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
400101* -- Activation
Nuclear Reaction
Radiometric & Radiochemical Procedures
ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS
ACTINIDE ISOTOPES
ACTINIDE NUCLEI
ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HEAVY NUCLEI
ISOTOPE RATIO
ISOTOPES
NUCLEI
PLUTONIUM 238
PLUTONIUM 239
PLUTONIUM 240
PLUTONIUM 241
PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS
PLUTONIUM FLUORIDES
PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES
QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
RADIOISOTOPES
RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
400101* -- Activation
Nuclear Reaction
Radiometric & Radiochemical Procedures
ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS
ACTINIDE ISOTOPES
ACTINIDE NUCLEI
ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HEAVY NUCLEI
ISOTOPE RATIO
ISOTOPES
NUCLEI
PLUTONIUM 238
PLUTONIUM 239
PLUTONIUM 240
PLUTONIUM 241
PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS
PLUTONIUM FLUORIDES
PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES
QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
RADIOISOTOPES
RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES