Abstract

Uranium metal samples of large surface to volume ratios were irradiated in the presence of 1 cm a of air. It was found that 1.708 +- 0.015% of ' 33 Xe was released during irradiation. It was proved that this amount of ~ 3 a Xe is due to the decay of ~ a 31 originally released. The release of 133 Xe was attributed to the knock-out mechanism.

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