Re: uranium in drinking water

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@chello.at>]

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Von: Bob Shannon <bobshann@home.com>
An: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Datum: Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2000 22:13
Betreff: Re: uranium in drinking water


>U-238/U-234 disequilibrium is very commonly observed  in groundwaters. The
>phenomenon is reportedly responsible for U-234:U-238 activity ratios as
high
>as 10:1.  The mechanism that I have heard proposed for this is that U-234
is
>relatively more soluble than U-238 in certain geological materials due to
>recoil damage to the crystal caused during in situ decay of U-238 to U-234.
>


Thanky you for this information. It sounds reasonable.

Franz


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