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Liquid chromatographic determination of the number of fissions in uranium/aluminium nuclear fuels

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Modern liquid-chromatographic (LC) procedures have been developed for the determination of atom% fission in235U metallic nuclear fuels having atom% fission values 3% to 75%. The diluted dissolved fuel was injected directly into a high-performance LC column, and the eluted metal ions were detected with an on-line reaction system. The fission monitor,139La, and the unfissioned U were determined with a precision of 1%, and a comparison with standard mass-spectrometric procedures gave good agreement (1%).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, S7N OWO, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, (Canada)

    R. M. Cassidy

  2. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., KOJ 1JO, Chalk River, ON, (Canada)

    S. Elchuk, L. W. Green, C. H. Knight, F. C. Miller & B. M. Recoskie

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Cassidy, R.M., Elchuk, S., Green, L.W. et al. Liquid chromatographic determination of the number of fissions in uranium/aluminium nuclear fuels. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 139, 55–64 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02060452

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