Re: How much plutonium?????

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov>]

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. 

Mt apologies, I fired my last message too quickly, I should have said: 
There are about 100 radioactive decays per second per kg; this is a total
of about 5,000 decays per second in the whole body, mostly from natural
potassium-40.

mike
Mike McNaughton
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