Re[2]: E-Link: Major Breakthrough in Hazardous Cleanup Proce

[LASPK@ccmail.ceco.com]

     Good comments, all around.  But may we dream about such a thing 
     anyway?  After all, if it were possible the perfect point of origin 
     would be California, home of Hollywood and make believe.
     
     Maybe they're sending the radioactive materials into another 
     "dimension" or such.  Sounds kind of like Star Trek.
     
     Paul Knoll
     LASPK@ccmail.ceco.com


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Subject: Re: E-Link: Major Breakthrough in Hazardous Cleanup Process
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET
Date:    12/5/96 4:24 PM


At 15:57 05.12.1996 -0600, you wrote: 
>I have trouble believing this!!
>.......................................................
     
May I join you in your disbelieving?
     
I  learnt a long long time ago, that the half life of a nuclide may be 
influenced to a very small extent, if it was an electron capture 
radionuclide and bonded to different other atoms. Otherwise no change in 
half life due to external circumstances was ever observed. I guess that a 
change in half life is the only possibility to change the concentration of a 
radionuclide within a short time. 
     
But maybe we are simply not able to understand the process, how physical 
treatment can let radionuclides vanish......
     
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