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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The mobility of radiocesium and plutonium in Roach Lake in southern Nevada
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe concentrations of several natural and artificial radionuclides were determined in the sediment from a dry lake in southern Nevada. Five sites (designated I through V) were selected in a dry lake called Roach Lake located in Ivanpah Valley about 41 miles west of Las Vegas, Nevada. The samples were analyzed for Cs-137 and other gamma emitting radionuclides using high purity germanium detectors. the plutonium analysis was performed, after chemical separation, by the detection of its alpha particle emissions with surface barrier detectors. Strontium-90 was determined at only one site, after extraction from the samples, by measuring its daughter yttrium-90 with a gas proportional counting instrument.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science (MS)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Chemistry
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Year
- 1995
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Nassehzadeh-Tabriz, Mohammadtagi
Rights
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- IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/504
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1503