Americium? vs. Plutonium via? Neptunium vs. Uranium Daughter XRF.
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Part 2.1
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Gathering baseline scans of? Uranium XRF.
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- Equipment used:
- Amptek GEO-1-2-3 with integral DPP/PC5 electronics and Si-PIN detector with preamplifier, external Amptek 5V 2A switching power supply wall-wart for power.
- Controlling computer is a 32 bit ACER ASPIRE ONE?NOTEBOOK with WIN10 running Amptek?DPPMCA control and analysis program, USB connected.
- Source being tested, suspected Trinity debris suspected of containing a small amount of Am.
To the casual observer this might look perfectly normal for a simple Am scan, with the lower energies easily mistaken for Np XRF.
Closer examination actually reveals, in my opinion at this time,? Np + U XRF combined in those peaks and they can be separated.
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