RadChem 2010

Session

Plenary Session 1

PL1

19 Apr 2010, 03:00

Casino Conference Centre

365. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry – from archaeology to astrophysics and human DNA

Prof. Walter Kutschera (Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA), Faculty of Physics – Isotope Research, University of Vienna, Austria)

19/04/2010, 03:00

Radionuclides in the Environment, Radioecology

Verbal

The advancement of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) some 30 years ago opened the possibility to detect long-lived radionuclides (both natural and man-made) through isotopic abundance measurements down to a level of ~10^-16. It thus became possible to explore our world atom by atom in almost every section of the environment at large. Worldwide there are about 80 facilities in...

366. Electrochemical separation of actinides from molten LiCl-KCl on solid Al cathodes

Dr J.-P. Glatz (European Commission, JRC, Institute for Transuranium Elements, P.O. Box 2340, 76125 Karlsruhe, Germany)

19/04/2010, 03:30

Chemistry of Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Radiochemical Problems in Nuclear Waste Management

Verbal

To comply with the sustainability goals defined for innovative reactor systems, a waste minimization through recycling of all actinides is required and can be realised using a so-called Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) concept inherent to the reactor systems. It is obvious that the corresponding fuel cycles will play a central role because an efficient and selective recovery of the key...

123. Comments on the correct interpretation of k₀-factors and on the proper use of the SMELS materials

Dr Frans De Corte ((em.) Ghent University and Research Foundation-Flanders)

19/04/2010, 04:00

Nuclear Analytical Methods

Verbal

Recently plans were devised [IAEA CRP 2005-2009: “Reference Database for Neutron Activation Analysis”] for creating and publishing a library of k0-factors that are generated differently from the experimentally determined ones published and used in practice thus far [ADNDT, 85 (2003) 47]. For two reasons, we look at this anxiously. Firstly, when realizing that these “new” k0-factors will be...