Re: TFP update article, E Magazine; replies to all

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Norman Cohen wrote:



> More answers below ---

>

> Dear Bernard,

> My understanding of the TFP is that Strontium-90 is used like a tracer. Sr90,

> as you know, has a half-life of about 29 years, and so the amount in baby

> teeth should be going down, not evening off and going up. If the baby got sr90

> from the local nuke, the baby alaso ingested all the other radionuclides

> emitted by the local nuke.



	--The radionuclides released from nuclear plants are those that

are volatile or gaseous. Strontium is the opposite on this criterion.



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