[ RadSafe ] Long lived isotope/particle specific activity

[Doug Huffman]

[1] pretty low! Eq. 17.4 Glasstone's Sourcebook on Atomic Energy

[2] multiple of fundamental acceptable risk, that of normal daily
activities, established in the 1957 WASH hearings or perhaps some
foundational document

[3] Radioactivity Dispersal Device, a dirty bomb - I read it first here
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On 5/26/2011 14:06, Jerry Cohen wrote:
> Doug.
>  Perhaps I am dense, or maybe just arithmatically handicapped, so please 
> clarify: [1] what is the specific activity of a stable isotope, [2] how do you 
> quantitatively express "risk magnitude", and [3] what is RDD ???
> Jerry Cohen
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Doug Huffman <doug.huffman at wildblue.net>
> To: "radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu" <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
> Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 5:55:01 AM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Long lived isotope/particle specific activity
> 
> A bit of arithmetic calculating the mass specific activity for the whole
> range of isotopes, stable and unstable, might lead to some understanding
> of risk magnitudes - as from RDD.
> 
> Who fails to do arithmetic is doomed, not least to nonsense.
> 
> Doug Huffman
> CNS Shift Test Engineer
> CNS C.2340.X retired
> Washington Island
> Wisconsin
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