The new nuclear forensics : analysis of nuclear materials for security purposes /

The new nuclear forensics : analysis of nuclear materials for security purposes / Ed. by Vitaly Fedchenko ; [contributors: Sophie Grape, Klaus Mayer, Maria Wallenius, Zsolt Varga, Magnus Hedberg, Nicole Erdmann, Robert Kelley, Lars-Erik De Geer] - Oxford : OUP, 2015 - 279 p. : ill.

SIP1509 SIPRI monographs The New Nuclear Forensics provides a survey and an analysis of the scientific discipline of nuclear forensic analysis, and the way it is applied to specific issues of international peace and security, from the 1940s to the present day. This book describes the various methods used in nuclear forensics, giving first a general introduction to the process followed by details of relevant measurement techniques and procedures. In each case, the advantages and limitations are outlined. It uses a language and methodology that opens the issue of nuclear forensics and its potential applications to a non-specialist readership.

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radiation--detection--nuclear weapons--nuclear testing--methodology--sampling--identification--plutonium--uranium--nuclear explosions

nuclear forensics spectrometry radionuclides