Abstract
Electrodeposition is the major method for source preparation of actinides, Pu, Am, Th, U using stainless steel discs and spontaneous deposition for Polonium using discs of silver. Worldwide coins are manufactured of bronze, steel, copper plated steel, cupronickel, brass and alloys of Cu–Ni–Zn. The price of the coins which can be used have a value between 0.1 and 0.4 Euro considerably cheaper than electropolished stainless steel discs, 0.8 Euro. This investigation had the purpose to show the possibility to use coins from different countries for source preparation, the energy resolution and deposition efficiency. We obtained plating recoveries ranging from 50 to 100 % and the energy resolution varied between 21 and 75 keV for the different coins tested.
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