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JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
Volume 311, Issue 2, Pages 1441-1452Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10967-016-5037-5
Keywords
Nuclear forensics; Nuclear Forensics International Technical Working Group (ITWG); Collaborative Materials Exercise (CMX)
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The Nuclear Forensics International Technical Working Group (ITWG) recently completed its fourth Collaborative Materials Exercise (CMX-4) in the 21 year history of the Group. This was also the largest materials exercise to date, with participating laboratories from 16 countries or international organizations. Exercise samples (including three separate samples of low enriched uranium oxide) were shipped as part of an illicit trafficking scenario, for which each laboratory was asked to conduct nuclear forensic analyses in support of a fictitious criminal investigation. In all, over 30 analytical techniques were applied to characterize exercise materials, for which ten of those techniques were applied to ITWG exercises for the first time. An objective review of the state of practice and emerging application of analytical techniques of nuclear forensic analysis based upon the outcome of this most recent exercise is provided.
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