Re: Normal Uranium or Natural Uranium?

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@LANL.GOV>]

At 03:19 PM 06/27/2002 -0700, John Johnson wrote:

>As I recall, the decay of U-238 dislodges the

>atom from the rock crystal latice and hence U-234 is more available.



The above explanation is described in the reference below, which says 

U234/U238 ratios as high as 20 have been observed in water.



At 08:22 AM 06/28/2002 -0400, Falo, Gerald A Dr HMJF wrote:

>"Uranium-series Disequilibrium Applications to Earth, Marine, and

>Environmental Sciences" 2nd Edition (1992) by M. Ivanovich and R. S. Harmon,



Thank you. mike

Mike McNaughton

Los Alamos National Lab.

email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov

phone: 505-667-6130



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