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Plutonium measurements at NEA’s North East Atlantic dumpsites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2012

J. Barescut ,
D. Lariviere ,
T. Stocki ,
K. Smith ,
L. León Vintró ,
P.I. Mitchell  and
D. Boust
K. Smith
Affiliation:
Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, 3 Clonskeagh Square, Dublin 14, Ireland
L. León Vintró
Affiliation:
UCD School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
P.I. Mitchell
Affiliation:
UCD School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
D. Boust
Affiliation:
IRSN, Laboratoire de Radioécologie, BP 10, 50130 Cherbourg-Octeville, France
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Abstract

Surface, intermediate and near-bottom water samples were collected at two of the North East Atlantic radioactive waste dumping sites (47∘ 14’N, 05∘ 33’W and 45∘ 27’N, 06∘ 16’W) in the course of a sampling campaign in June–July 1998. Analysis of 239,240Pu concentrations show no significant differences with respect to measured concentrations in waters taken from control (background) stations well removed from the dumping sites.

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Radioprotection , Volume 46 , Issue 6: ICRER 2011 – International Conference on Radioecology & Environmental Radioactivity: Environment & Nuclear Renaissance , 2011 , pp. S271 - S275
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© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2011

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