RE: Sr-90 RTG power

[Jack_Earley@RL.GOV]

One other comment was that the "watts" being talked about here relate to

thermal energy,

rather than electrical. His guess would be that you could assume (on the

liberal side) 30% conversion to electrical wattage.



Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer





-----Original Message-----

From: Brian Rees [mailto:brees@lanl.gov]

Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:54 PM

To: Phil Hypes; Jack_Earley@rl.gov; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: Sr-90 RTG power





Nuclides and Isotopes (GE, 14th ed.) gives 0.916 W/g.  Specific Activity of 

136.5 Ci/g (RHH 3rd ed.) => 268 W - looks good enough!



Brian Rees



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