The first use of U in the general environment and near a shutdown nuclear power plant |
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| Authors: | F. Quinto P. Steier G. Wallner A. Wallner M. Srncik M. Bichler W. Kutschera F. Terrasi A. Petraglia C. Sabbarese |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS UMR 7154, Université Denis Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 1 rue Jussieu, 75238 Paris Cedex 05, France;2. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Climate Geochemistry Department, 55128 Mainz, Germany;3. Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), CNRS-Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy 54501, France;4. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, CAS, 550081 Guiyang, PR China;5. SIAAP, Direction of Development & Prospect, F-92700 Colombes, France |
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| Abstract: | We present a first effort to investigate 236U in the environment near a shutdown nuclear power plant far away from highly contaminated sites, by using accelerator mass spectrometry. The detection limit of about 1 pg 236U allowed us to identify a minimal increase of the 236U/238U isotopic ratio correlated to a peak of 137Cs in river sediments downstream of the nuclear power plant, and to detect anthropogenic 236U also upstream, where it is probably not related to the power plant but to global fallout. The 236U content shoved variations of the 236U/238U isotopic ratio in relation to the chemical–physical characteristics of the sediments. This demonstrates the potential of 236U as an environmental tracer, and as an indicator for releases from nuclear facilities. |
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| Keywords: | AMS Uranium isotopic ratios 236U |
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