Detecting 127Xe in an atmospheric tracer experiment

IF 1.9 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Journal of environmental radioactivity Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2025.107614

Paul W. Eslinger , Matthew A. Goodwin , Ramesh S. Sarathi , Glen A. Warren , Brian T. Schrom , Michael Foxe , Daniel Chester , Graham Galvin , Reagan S. Turley , L. Daniel Hardy , PE-1 Experiment Team

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Abstract

The Xcounts algorithm for calculating air concentrations of radioactive xenon isotopes (Eslinger et al., 2023) has been extended to estimate ¹²⁷Xe in addition to ^131mXe, ^133mXe, ¹³³Xe, and ¹³⁵Xe. The algorithm was applied to 119 samples collected with a SAUNA Q_B system (Ringbom et al., 2023) during a two-month atmospheric tracer release experiment. The algorithm identified two samples with ¹²⁷Xe present from a single 1.5 h release about 3.5 km upwind of the sampler and no false detections of ¹²⁷Xe were observed in the other samples.

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Journal of environmental radioactivity 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

4.70

自引率

13.00%

发文量

209

审稿时长

73 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Environmental Radioactivity provides a coherent international forum for publication of original research or review papers on any aspect of the occurrence of radioactivity in natural systems. Relevant subject areas range from applications of environmental radionuclides as mechanistic or timescale tracers of natural processes to assessments of the radioecological or radiological effects of ambient radioactivity. Papers deal with naturally occurring nuclides or with those created and released by man through nuclear weapons manufacture and testing, energy production, fuel-cycle technology, etc. Reports on radioactivity in the oceans, sediments, rivers, lakes, groundwaters, soils, atmosphere and all divisions of the biosphere are welcomed, but these should not simply be of a monitoring nature unless the data are particularly innovative.