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Joint Bratislava–Prague studies of radiocarbon and uranium in the environment using accelerator mass spectrometry and radiometric methods

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A research program has been established between Bratislava and Prague groups to study natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in the environment using both Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) and radiometric methods. The first studies have focused on 14C activity variations in the atmosphere and biosphere with the aim to evaluate an impact of Czech and Slovak Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) on the environment, and on the development of AMS technique for investigation of actinides (mainly uranium isotopes) in the environment.

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  1. CO2 mixing ratio means number of CO2 mol per one mole of air.

  2. Following Stuiver-Polach convention 14C (or 14CO2) activity is a reporting of 14C abundance in carbon isotopic mixture, where 0 ‰ of Δ14C is about 0.226 Bq of 14C per gram of carbon isotopic mixture [27, 28].

  3. Molar units of air can also be replaced by normalized volume or weight units [25].

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge fruitful collaboration during AMS measurements with Profs. P. Steier and A. Priller of the VERA laboratory of Vienna University. This work was supported by the EU Research and Development Operational Program funded by the ERDF (projects Nos. 26240120012, 26240120026 and 26240220004), by the institutional funding of Nuclear Physics Institute AS CR (RVO61389005), by project No. 5/2008 of the SONS of the Czech Republic, by the Grant Agency of the Czech Technical University in Prague (grant No. SGS14/154/OHK4/2T/14), and by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic (grant No. FR-TI3/245).

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  1. Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    P. P. Povinec, M. Ješkovský, A. Šivo, M. Richtáriková & R. Breier

  2. Nuclear Physic Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 250 68, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic

    I. Svetlik, J. Kučera, M. Fejgl & R. Černý

  3. Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

    J. John, I. Špendlíková, M. Němec & R. Černý

  4. National Radiation Protection Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

    I. Svetlik & M. Fejgl

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Povinec, P.P., Svetlik, I., Ješkovský, M. et al. Joint Bratislava–Prague studies of radiocarbon and uranium in the environment using accelerator mass spectrometry and radiometric methods. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 304, 67–73 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-014-3618-8

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