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Xe-135 production from Cf-252

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The presence of 135Xe is often used as an indicator that fission has occurred, and is used to help enforce the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. There are no known commercial suppliers, though it can be acquired. Readily available standards of this isotope are very useful. 135Xe can be produced through fission, or by neutron capture on 134Xe. At the INL, scientists have previously transported fission products from an electroplated 252Cf thin source for the measurement of nuclear data of short-lived fission products using a technique called He-Jet collection. A similar system has been applied to the collection of gaseous 135Xe, and 133Xe, in order to produce standards of these isotopes.

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McGrath, C.A., Houghton, T.P., Pfeiffer, J.K. et al. Xe-135 production from Cf-252. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 296, 893–897 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-012-2152-9

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