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ArticleJournal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry2025

Plutonium signatures in refractory fallout support a Chernobyl nuclear jet hypothesis.

Malcolm J Joyce, Colin Boxall, Marcus Christl, Patrick Collins-Price, Pawel Gaca, Philip Gautschi, Francis Livens, Argaia Madina, Kirk T Semple, Phillip Warwick and 1 more

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Article in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Ultra-traceAnalytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026
    Article
  2. Impact Assessment and Sustainable Remediation of Heavy Metal and Radioactive Contamination in Aquatic Systems: A Review.Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation · 2026
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Malcolm J JoyceSchool of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3074-3484
Colin BoxallSchool of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW UK.
Marcus ChristlLaboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zürich, HPK, G23, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Patrick Collins-PriceSchool of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW UK.
Pawel GacaNational Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH UK.
Philip GautschiLaboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zürich, HPK, G23, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Francis LivensDepartment of Earth & Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL UK.
Argaia MadinaSchool of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW UK.
Kirk T SempleLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ UK.
Phillip WarwickNational Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH UK.
Richard WilbrahamSchool of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Measurements of refractory and volatile components in soils from Northern England confirm Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10967-025-10541-0.

Indexed as

Accelerator mass spectrometryChernobylEnvironmental plutoniumRefractory fallout

Identifiers

PMID41586250
PMCPMC12827445

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