Re: Contaminated uranium in the news again

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Raymond A. Hoover wrote:



> I just finished a review of some of the papers referenced in the document.  

> The levels of contamination were on the order of ppb for Pu and Np, and 



	--Roughly, the doses from a given mass of Pu and U is inversely

proportional to their half lives, 4,500,000,000 / 25,000, or 180,000. Thus

1 part per billion of Pu would increase the dose by only 0.02%. This is

truly negligible.



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