Search for plutonium-244 tracks in mountain pass bastnaesite

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Abstract

WE have found that bastnaesite, a rare earth fluorocarbonate, from the Precambrian Mountain Pass deposit has an apparent Cretaceous fission track age, and hence does not reveal any anomalous fission tracks due to 244Pu.


Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Search for plutonium-244 tracks in mountain pass bastnaesite
Series title Nature
DOI 10.1038/240465b0
Volume 240
Issue 5382
Year Published 1972
Language English
Publisher Nature
Description 1 p.
First page 465
Last page 465
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