[ RadSafe ] Ag-108m Release Criteria

[Sam Iverstine]

Ag-110m and 
Ag-108

are more common. They are beta emitters in spent fuel. The 110m has strong gamma too.

Sam Iverstine, MS, CHP
Board Certified and Licensed Consultant Physicist


--- On Mon, 6/6/11, Edmond Baratta <edmond0033 at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Edmond Baratta <edmond0033 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Ag-108m Release Criteria
> To: "'The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List'" <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
> Date: Monday, June 6, 2011, 10:15 PM
> Ag-108m is in the"old" Radiological
> Health Handbook Department of Health Education and Welfare,
> Public Health Service (DHEW/PHS) , 1970.  Its
> production is by Ag-107 (n, gamma).  Half-life is ~ 5
> years.  It's EC is 90% and IT is 10%.  It has no
> gammas and that may be why it is not in that Library.
> 
> Ed Baratta
> 
> edmond0033 at comcast.net
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Dustin G. Miller
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 10:31 AM
> To: 'The International Radiation Protection (Health
> Physics) Mailing List'
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Ag-108m Release Criteria
> 
> Anyone out there familiar enough with the DandD code to
> know why Ag-108m is
> not included in the radionuclide library?  Am I
> missing something?
> 
> 
> 
> Dustin G. Miller
> 
> Project Manager
> 
> RSO/Health Physicist
> 
> 
> 
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