Measurement of uranium spectrum using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (Contract research)

Akaoka, Katsuaki ; Maruyama, Yoichiro; Oba, Masaki ; Miyabe, Masabumi   ; Otobe, Haruyoshi  ; Wakaida, Ikuo  

For applying Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) to the analysis of nuclear fuel materials, it is very important to identify the emission spectrum and its intensity on impurities intermingled within complex emission spectra of matrix elements such as uranium (U) and plutonium (Pu). Then, the spectra of natural uranium are measured using LIBS, 165 atomic spectra and 381 single ion spectra were identified.