Journal
JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
Volume 304, Issue 2, Pages 705-715Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10967-014-3895-2
Keywords
Trinitite; Nuclear forensics; Elemental fractionation; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Laser melting; Nuclear fallout
Funding
- Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-AC05-75RLO1830]
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We describe a new approach to the bench top production of surrogate nuclear explosion debris by employing high power continuous wave CO2 laser irradiation. High surface temperatures >2,500 K can be rapidly attained, allowing virtually any combination of materials to be fused into a glassy matrix that can display high levels of elemental fractionation. Examples of the laser fused glasses will be presented and compared to trinitite nuclear explosion glass along with the elemental fractionation effects that were induced in the NIST glass standard SRM-612 by this method.
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