RE: Gamma constant for Am-241

["Perrero, Daren" <Perrero@IDNS.STATE.IL.US>]

I've got 0.0003 mrem per hour per microcurie at a distance of 1 meter from the Health Physics and Rad Health Handbook (bernie shleien, 1992)

 

Daren Perrero
Health Physicist
Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety
217 785 9929

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Hardeman [mailto:Jim_Hardeman@dnr.state.ga.us]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:14 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Gamma constant for Am-241

Colleagues -

 

Most of my "good references" are packed up in a "go kit".

 

Does somebody know the gamma constant for Am-241 right off the bat?

Thanks!

 

Jim Hardeman

Jim_Hardeman@dnr.state.ga.us