Radiation Damage as a Possible Metal Chronometer for Pre-Detonation Nuclear Forensics
Radiation Damage as a Possible Metal Chronometer for Pre-Detonation Nuclear Forensics is a scholarly work, published in 2015 in ''International Journal of Nuclear Security''. The main subjects of the publication include mining engineering, uranium, nuclear weapon, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, fission track dating, nuclear engineering, nuclear explosion, environmental science, fission, detonation, nuclear physics, geology, actinide chemistry, pyrochlore, depleted uranium, and nuclear fission. The paper examines the effects of radiolytic damage caused by the decay of uranium isotopes and assesses the potential forensic utility of examination of these damage regions for determining the time since forming of a metal sample.