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Mikael Elfman

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How to detect radionuclides specific to the European Spallation Source in soil samples?

Author

  • Guillaume Pédehontaa-Hiaa
  • Robert Frost
  • Vytenis Barkauskas
  • Kristina Eriksson Stenström
  • Mikael Elfman
  • Christian Bernhardsson
  • Christopher Rääf

Summary, in English

The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a neutron research facility under construction in southern Sweden. The facility will produce a wide range of radionuclides including 148Gd, 187W, 172Hf, 182Ta and 178nHf that could be released into the environment in an accident scenario. Detection limits for these contaminants in soil were estimated to be in the mg k-1 range for ICP-MS and <3 Bq per 200 ml soil for gamma-ray spectroscopy.

Department/s

  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö
  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • Nuclear physics
  • LTH Profile Area: Aerosols
  • Department of Translational Medicine

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

115-120

Publication/Series

Medical Physics in the Baltic States (2023) : Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Medical Physics

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Kaunas University of Technology

Topic

  • Other Physics Topics
  • Environmental Sciences

Keywords

  • Environmental radiology
  • metal trace analysis
  • emergency preparedness
  • Mass spectromery
  • gamma spectrometry

Status

Published

Project

  • Development of measurement methods for specific radionuclides from ESS

Research group

  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö