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Concentration of Uranium and the Activity Ratio of 234U/238U in Surface Air: Effect of Atmospheric Burn-up of Cosmos-954
Katsumi HiroseYukio Sugimura
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1981 Volume 32 Issue 4 Pages 317-322

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   Results of study on the concentration of uranium and the activity ratio of 234U/238U in surface air in Tokyo and Tsukuba Science City indicate that the average concentrations of uranium are 24±15 pg m-3 and 14±10 pg m-3 respectively, and the average activity ratio is about 1.0. The high ratio up to 1.7 observed in three spring seasons. The causes of these high isotopic ratios of 234U/238U may be due to the effect of ablated debris deriving from the atmospheric burn-up of Cosmos-954 on 24 Jan. 1978 over northern Canada.
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