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Re: How much plutonium?????



At 08:03 AM 5/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Also, has anyone actually calculated the number of radio
>active decays in the body, say, per second. 

There are about 100 radioactive decays per second in the body, mostly from
natural potassium-40.

mike
Mike McNaughton
email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
phone: (505)667-6130
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