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A Highly-enriched 244Pu Reference Material for Nuclear Safeguards and Nuclear Forensic Measurements

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Author(s)

Richard Essex, Ross W. Williams, Kerri C. Treinen, Amelie Hubert, Marc A. Humphrey, Jeremy D. Inglis, William S. Kinman, Joel Maassen, Maxim V. Penkin, Robert E. Steiner

Abstract

A highly-enriched 244Pu isotope dilution reference material has been prepared and characterized for metrologically traceable measurements of very small quantities of plutonium. The amount of plutonium in samples associated with nuclear safeguards and nuclear forensic measurements can be significantly less than 1 ng. Accordingly, the ability to quantify the amount and isotopic composition of plutonium from a single mass-spectrometric analysis is particularly desirable. The highly-enriched 244Pu reference material, described here, will minimize the magnitude of spike corrections necessary to obtain accurate information on plutonium isotopic composition from isotope dilution measurements.
Citation
Journal of Radioanalytical Nuclear Chemistry
Volume
324
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07075-y
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Keywords

plutonium, reference material, isotope dilution mass spectrometry, nuclear safeguards, nuclear forensics, traceabilityPu, traceability
Reference materials and Forensic Science

Citation

Essex, R. , Williams, R. , Treinen, K. , Hubert, A. , Humphrey, M. , Inglis, J. , Kinman, W. , Maassen, J. , Penkin, M. and Steiner, R. (2021), A Highly-enriched 244Pu Reference Material for Nuclear Safeguards and Nuclear Forensic Measurements, Journal of Radioanalytical Nuclear Chemistry, [online], https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07075-y, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=928756 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created January 25, 2021, Updated June 24, 2021
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