Re: Uranium Effluents

[Les Fraley <les@lamar.ColoState.EDU>]

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 kevin.scott@po.state.ct.us wrote:

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> Dear Radsafers:
> Now that we are on the topic of uranium, I pose the following question:
> If an effluent pathway to the environment has a specific U-235/U238
> conentration lets say 10%, what is the probability that a effluent pathway 
> environmental sample, lets say sediment, would have a greater than 10%
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> Thanks in Advance
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> Kevin Scott
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Assuming you mean concentration, 10 % of what?  It would be well nigh to 
impossible to go 10 % of 235,238-U in any normal effluent.  For a 
reasonable concentration, the probability is approximately 99.99 %.
 
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