Measuring The Unmeasurable: Research Paper Could Help Dounreay Clean Up Plutonium Leg

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Measuring The Unmeasurable: Research Paper Could Help Dounreay Clean Up Plutonium Legacy

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Ground-breaking research published in Nature Communications shows that traces of plutonium in the environment can be identified as being from global or local sources. Using soil samples taken from Dounreay, an area near to the site and 2 areas at a distance from the site, the research showed that it was possible to identify whether minute traces of plutonium in the soil came from plutonium ‘bred' in a reactor or from global fallout. [Read Full Article]