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The impurity activation products produced during prolonged neutron irradiation make the main contribution to the contamination of spent reactor graphite. Data on the content of impurity elements in reactor graphite are needed to predict its radioactivity. The results of the determination of the content of 16 impurity elements in graphite from commercial and RBMK reactors by the neutron–activation method based on the IRT at the Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute are presented and compared with the results obtained previously and by other methods.
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Bushuev, A.V., Zubarev, V.N. & Proshin, I.M. Impurity Composition and Content in Graphite from Commercial Reactors. Atomic Energy 92, 331–335 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016506110872
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016506110872