{"id":21230,"date":"2020-01-14T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T22:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=21230"},"modified":"2020-01-14T23:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T22:14:52","slug":"neutron-activation-analysis-of-meteorites-at-the-vr-1-training-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=21230","title":{"rendered":"Neutron activation analysis of meteorites at the VR-1 training reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Milan Stefanik, Martin Cesnek, Lubomir Sklenka, Tomas Kmjec, Marcel Miglierini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radiation Physics and Chemistry<br>\nVolume 171, June 2020, 108675<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0969806X19309867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Highlights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022    Applications of nuclear analytical techniques.<br>\n\u2022    Neutron activation analysis and gamma-spectrometry in interdisciplinary research.<br>\n\u2022    Analysis of elemental composition of iron meteorites and tektites.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text\">&#8220;Samples of space objects were characterized using instrumental neutron activation analysis (NAA) combined with conversion electron M\u00f6ssbauer spectrometry. Fragments of Moldavites, Muonionalusta meteorite and Sikhote-Alin meteorite were irradiated in the thermal neutron field of the low-power VR-1 training reactor operated by the Czech Technical University in Prague. Activated samples were investigated by means of nuclear gamma-spectrometry technique (semiconductor HPGe detector). Qualitative analysis revealed the occurrence of Na, Al, Mg, Cl, K, Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Sr, and Ba in Moldavites, Na, Cl, Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, Ni, As, and Au in Muonionalusta iron meteorite, and Ni, Co, Fe, and Mn in Sikhote-Alin iron meteorite. Employing the comparative NAA, the concentration of Na, Al, K, Ti, V, Fe, and Sr in Moldavite, concentration of Na, Fe, Ni, and Au in Muonionalusta meteorite, and concentration of Ni in Sikhote-Alin meteorite was determined. Moreover, Muonionalusta meteorite structure was investigated using the conversion electron M\u00f6ssbauer spectrometry at room temperature, and \u03b1-(Fe, Ni) phase and \u03b3-(Fe, Ni) phase were identified. The obtained results clearly show that the low-power VR-1 research reactor (80 W) is an excellent tool for NAA experiments, and that nuclear-analytical techniques can provide useful data for other scientific branches.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milan Stefanik, Martin Cesnek, Lubomir Sklenka, Tomas Kmjec, Marcel Miglierini Radiation Physics and Chemistry Volume 171, June 2020, 108675 LINK &#8220;Highlights \u2022 Applications of nuclear analytical techniques. \u2022 Neutron activation analysis and gamma-spectrometry in interdisciplinary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1598,214,3296],"tags":[4711,1954,595,2919,804],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21231,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230\/revisions\/21231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}