Studies of the uranium biodistribution in animals contaminated by ingestion using fission track method

Using animals a study on the internal contamination by U ingestion is presented. Two rats of Wistar-London breed were contaminated at once and after different time intervals, 3 days and 10 days respectively, they were sacrified. Uranium biodistribution in the vital organs as well as the uranium retention and elimination was investigated using the fission track method. For the two contaminated subjects a comparison between obtained quantitative results is given.     

Analysis of prompt fission neutron spectrum and multiplicity for 237Np（n,f） in the frame of multi-modal Los Alamos model

The improved version of Los Alamos model with the multi-modal fission approach is used to analyse the prompt fission neutron spectrum and multiplicity for the neutron-induced fission of 237Np. The spectra of neutrons emitted from fragments for the three most dominant fission modes (standard Ⅰ, standard Ⅱ and superlong) are calculated separately and the total spectrum is synthesized. The multi-modal parameters contained in the spectrum model are determined on the basis of experimental data of fission fragment mass distributions. The calculated total prompt fission neutron spectrum and multiplicity are better agreement with the experimental data than those obtained from the conventional treatment of the Los Alamos model.     

The study of the (α, α′ f) reaction at 120 MeV on 232Th and 238U: (II). Fission barrier properties deduced from fission probabilities and angular distributions

The fission probabilities and angular distributions of the fission fragments for the (α, α'f) reaction on ²³²Th and ²³⁸U at a bombarding energy of 120 MeV have been measured from about 4 to 14 MeV excitation energy. Evidence for sub-barrier resonances has been found, the negativeparity ones occurring at the same excitation energy where photofission resonances have been observed. The data are analyzed with the two-humped barrier model. For ²³⁸U the data are reasonably well fitted with barriers similar to those known from the literature. For ²³²Th though, the outer barrier parameters are quite different: the height E_B = 6.6 MeV and the width (khω)_B = 1.2 MeV. Also for ²³²Th, introducing an additional mass symmetric and axially asymmetric outer barrier, as was previously found necessary for ²³⁸U, does not result in a good fit to the data at higher excitation energies.     

Charge division mechanism in low energy binary fission and the passage of prompt fragments towards theβ-stable products in terms of the double core model

The postulates of the double core model of binary fission are examined against the two well-known charge division mechanisms of fission, namelyucd andecd. An analytic expression of the modifieducd formula is obtained. Radiochemical distribution of mass and charge, formulated from the model, is found to agree satisfactorily with available experimental results. Finally, the most probable charge and mass values of the radiochemical heavy and light products, the average number of neutron andβ-emissions per fragment, are calculated, and found to agree with experimental observations.