Re: request for help with Wikipedia article

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@LANL.GOV>]

At 08:02 AM 08/26/2004, Nathan Russell wrote:

>on the Chernobyl accident in particular - why does it seem like I can't 

>find any

>figures for the amount of activity released that are even close to each other?



The UNSCEAR-2000 report (Annex J) provides partial explanations. First, 

some estimates include the noble gases. Second, the decay corrections are 

done to various different times; since many of the radionuclides are 

short-lived, this leads to different answers.



mike

Mike McNaughton

Los Alamos National Lab.

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

phone: 505-667-6130; page: 505-664-7733



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