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Title: Combination of atomic lines and molecular bands for uranium optical isotopic analysis in laser induced plasma spectrometry

Abstract

Through computer simulation on experimentally acquired optical spectra, uranium isotopic analysis by laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy were studied. The use of only one spectral feature, either the strong UO band at 593.55 nm or the nearby U I 593.382 nm line, are similar in precisions (~ 1.5% in absolute 235U abundances). Precision improves to 0.72% with the use of a group of U atomic lines from 591.6 to 596.5 nm. The use of both molecular bands and atomic lines further advances the precision to 0.42% and compares well with the U II 424.437 nm single-line benchmark (0.48% precision).

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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Korea Inst. of Nuclear Safety, Daejeon (South Korea)
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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1532238
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 312; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0236-5731
Publisher:
Springer
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; Optical isotopic analysis; Uranium Laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry; Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy; Isotope shift

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Mao, Xianglei, Chan, George C. -Y., Choi, Inhee, Zorba, Vassilia, and Russo, Richard E. Combination of atomic lines and molecular bands for uranium optical isotopic analysis in laser induced plasma spectrometry. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1007/s10967-017-5197-y.
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Mao, Xianglei, Chan, George C. -Y., Choi, Inhee, Zorba, Vassilia, & Russo, Richard E. Combination of atomic lines and molecular bands for uranium optical isotopic analysis in laser induced plasma spectrometry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5197-y
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Mao, Xianglei, Chan, George C. -Y., Choi, Inhee, Zorba, Vassilia, and Russo, Richard E. Sat . "Combination of atomic lines and molecular bands for uranium optical isotopic analysis in laser induced plasma spectrometry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5197-y. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1532238.
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@article{osti_1532238,
title = {Combination of atomic lines and molecular bands for uranium optical isotopic analysis in laser induced plasma spectrometry},
author = {Mao, Xianglei and Chan, George C. -Y. and Choi, Inhee and Zorba, Vassilia and Russo, Richard E.},
abstractNote = {Through computer simulation on experimentally acquired optical spectra, uranium isotopic analysis by laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy were studied. The use of only one spectral feature, either the strong UO band at 593.55 nm or the nearby U I 593.382 nm line, are similar in precisions (~ 1.5% in absolute 235U abundances). Precision improves to 0.72% with the use of a group of U atomic lines from 591.6 to 596.5 nm. The use of both molecular bands and atomic lines further advances the precision to 0.42% and compares well with the U II 424.437 nm single-line benchmark (0.48% precision).},
doi = {10.1007/s10967-017-5197-y},
journal = {Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry},
number = 1,
volume = 312,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {2}
}
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