@article{
author = "Radenković, Mirjana and Kandić, Aleksandar and Vukanac, Ivana and Joksić, Jasminka D. and Đorđević, D. S.",
year = "2007",
abstract = "The main results of chemical and radiochemical characterization and fractionation of depleted uranium in soils contaminated during the Balkan conflict in 1999 are presented in the paper. Alpha-spectrometric analysis of used depleted uranium material has shown the presence of man-made radioisotopes U-236, Np-237, and Pu-239,Pu- 240 traces. The fractionation in different soil types was examined by the application of a modified Tessiers five-step sequential chemical extraction procedure, specifically selective to certain physical/chemical associations. After ion-exchange-based radiochemical separation of uranium, depleted uranium is distinguished from naturally occurring uranium in extracts on the basis of the isotopic activity ratios U-234/U-238 and U-235/U-238 and particular substrates for recently present uranium material in soils are indicated.",
journal = "Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A",
title = "Chemical and radiochemical characterization of depleted uranium in contaminated soils",
volume = "81",
number = "9",
pages = "1448-1451",
doi = "10.1134/S0036024407090191"
}