Conveners
Technical Session 2B: Nuclear Forensic Science: Signatures of Nuclear Material I
- J. De Souza Sarkis (Brazil)
- T. Hinton (Canada)
Dr
A. Wotherspoon
(Australia)
08/07/2014, 09:00
Oral
Nuclear Forensics is a developing discipline pivotal to dealing with nuclear security events. Still in its comparative infancy, the current goal is to develop material signatures which are capable of identifying seized materials with the greatest degree of confidence and determine the origin/provenance of such materials.
Australia possesses the world’s largest resources of uranium bearing...
Ms
D. Ho
(Singapore)
08/07/2014, 09:20
Oral
Nuclear Forensics is a relatively new discipline that emerged as a response to illicit nuclear material trafficking. From measurable parameters such as chemical and isotopic composition of major and minor elements, the aim of the analysis is to determine the origin of the 'lost' or 'found' nuclear material. The task of attributing materials remains to be multi-faceted and the search for new...
Prof.
Y-G. Zhao
(China Institute of Atomic Energy)
08/07/2014, 09:40
Oral
Identifying the source of uranium ore concentrates (UOCs) has become a research hotspot in nuclear forensics. In the present study, the applicability of rare-earth element (REE) signature for attribution of UOCs has been investigated. The REE patterns have geographical signatures, and hardly change during the leaching processes. With the help of statistical analysis, UOCs from different...
J. Krajkó
(European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for Transuranium Elements)
08/07/2014, 10:00
Oral
Since the early 1990s illegal possession, transfer and other unauthorised acts involving nuclear materials have taken place. In order to identify the hazard, intended use and origin of the illicitly trafficked nuclear materials, various analytical methods using including radiometry, mass spectrometry and electron microscopy have been developed for nuclear forensics during the last...
