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Uranium and thorium radionuclides were measured on two gravity cores (T17G and T18G) and one box core (T19B) collected from the western South Okinawa Trough (SOT), one gravity core from off shore Southwest Taiwan (N3) and three box cores (C, D and E) from the northern South China Sea (SCS) in order to examine the variations of these radionuclides and their activity ratios in the sediments of the areas and to characterize the source function of the sediments and their geochemical implication based on these nuclides. For long half-life radionuclides such as 238U, 234U, 232Th and 230Th, the activities in the cores of the SOT and Southwest Taiwan areas show no significant vertical or areal variations, implying no significant variation in sediment supply or depositional environment within the past 100 years. The average activity of 238U is 1.65 dpm/g and 1.33 dpm/g in the SOT and Southwest Taiwan areas, respectively, and that of 232Th is 3.57 dpm/g and 3.34 dpm/g, respectively. The average activities of 238U and 232Th are, respectively, 1.37 dpm/g and 2.37 dpm/g in the SCS. The mean 232Th activity is lower in the SCS than in the SOT and Southwest Taiwan. The mean 232Th activity of the sediments in the SOT and Southwest Taiwan is quite comparable to that of the shale, slate and black schist in Taiwan, suggesting that these sediments are the terrigenous detrial materials from Taiwan. The 238U and 234U activities in the cores of these two areas show no significant vertical nor areal variations with activities ranging between 1.3 and 2 dpm/g, and their 234U /238U activity ratios being about 1.1, quite close to that of seawater (1.14). Since 238U and 234U are quite comparable among the three areas, the higher activity of 230Th in excess over 234U in the northern SCS may be due to greater water depth that allows more 234U produced 230Th to be scavenged from the water column. The uranium and thorium radionuclides and their activity ratios in the SOT and Southwest Taiwan sediments suggest that these sediments are the terrigenous detrial materials from Taiwan. The source function of the SCS sediments is more complex than that of the above-mentioned sediments.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T12:52:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T14:01:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Neste trabalho foi estabelecido um procedimento para determinação da razão isotópica 238U/235U em amostras de UF6, utilizando-se um espectrômetro de massas quadrupolar com ionização por impacto eletrônico e detecção de íons por copo de Faraday ou multiplicador de elétrons. Para tanto, o espectrômetro foi otimizado, determinando-se os parâmetros para a fonte de íons que proporcionassem a maior intensidade de corrente iônica, mantendo o pico de forma arredondada, para a massa correspondente ao isótopo mais abundante; a resolução que reduzisse os efeitos não lineares e o número de ciclos analíticos que reduzisse a incerteza nos resultados. O processo de medição foi caracterizado quanto: aos efeitos de discriminação de massa, linearidade e efeito memória. A discriminação de massas mostrou ser linearmente dependente da pressão da amostra no tanque de expansão nas faixas de 0,15 a 0,30 mbar e de 0,30 a 0,40 mbar. O espectrômetro mostrou-se linear na medição de razões isotópicas entre 0,005 e 0,045. Os fatores de memória para a fonte de íons e para o sistema de introdução são, respectivamente, 1,000 ± 0,001 e 1,003 ± 0,003; o primeiro pode ser desprezado e o segundo eliminado por procedimentos de lavagem do sistema de introdução. O trabalho apresenta, em sua parte final, um roteiro para as análises de amostras de UF6 e a determinação das incertezas nos resultados. / Dissertacao (Mestrado) / IPEN/D / Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares - IPEN/CNEN-SP