On Weapons Plutonium in the Arctic Environment (Thule, Greenland)

• Main Author: Eriksson, Mats
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Risø National Laboratory 2002
• Subjects: Radiology; Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging; Nuclear physics; Kärnfysik; Nuclear medicine; radiobiology; Nukleärmedicin; radiobiologi; Nuclear engineering and technology; Kärnteknik; realtime digital image systems; SEM; ICP-MS; alpha spectrometry; gamma spectrometry; heterogeneous activity concentration; hot particle; separation technique; isotopic ratio; inventory; source term; fallout; americium; uranium; plutonium; radionuclide; Bylot Sound; Greenland; Thule; environmental radioactivity; nuclear accident; Arctic; Pituffik
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/464579

This thesis concerns a nuclear accident that occurred in the Thule (Pituffik) area, NW Greenland in 1968, called the Thule accident. Results are based on different analytical techniques, i.e. gamma spectrometry, alpha spectrometry, ICP-MS, SEM with EDX and different sediment models, i.e. (CRS, CIC)....