RE: uranium in drinking water

["McCormick, Luke I NWD02" <g6hxxlim@nwd02.usace.army.mil>]

Might the inconsistency be due to enriched uranium? I think U-234 becomes
the dominant alpha activity at about 1% enrichment.  I would consider this
if I were around, say, Paducah, KY.
Luke McCormick 
mccormickl@hotmail.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Rodney Bauman [mailto:RBauman@wssrap.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 2:48 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: uranium in drinking water


What's the explanation for the U-234/U-238 ratio of 2.3?  One might expect
such a discrepancy at concentrations near the MDC (i.e., due to counting
statistics), but not at hundreds of pCi/L.  I would seriously question this
data due to this inconsistency.

Rodney Bauman, CHP, RRPT
rbauman@wssrap.com 
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