The spontaneous emission of submicronic particles from a surface of highradioactive dielectrics has been under the experimental study for the first time. Formation of disordered regions due to intrinsic irradiation and electron sputtering of surface clusters processes turned out to be responsible for the phenomenon under observation.
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