RE: Bananacuries

["McCormick, Luke" <mccormickl@hq.hqusareur.army.mil>]

The Brazil nuts contain Radium,  0.2 to 7  pCi/gm with 80% of samples over 1
pCi/gm according to Eisenbud.


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> From: 	Steven.Rima@DOEGJPO.COM[SMTP:Steven.Rima@DOEGJPO.COM]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Friday, June 26, 1998 7:54 AM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Bananacuries
> 
>      I don't know about Brazil nuts, but I have information that the 
>      "average" banana (we won't discuss what that is) contains about 400 
>      total milligrams of potassium, with a resulting activity of about 0.3
> 
>      nanocuries. Closer to a bananabecquerel.  :-)
>      
>      Steven D. Rima, CHP
>      Manager, Health Physics and Industrial Hygiene
>      MACTEC-ERS, LLC
>      steven.rima@doegjpo.com
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> Subject: Bananacuries
> Author:  Scott Schwahn <schwahn@jlab.org> at Internet
> Date:    6/25/98 4:56 PM
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> 
> I just did a search of the RADSAFE archives have not gotten a response 
> yet, and am in quite a hurry to get the answer to the following 
> question.  If you have such information, please let me know.
>      
> What is the average K-40 specific activity in a banana?  In a Brazil 
> nut?
>      
> I have heard it is on the level of a bananacurie ;-}
>      
> Thanks for your prompt replies (I hope).
>      
> Scott
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> Scott O. Schwahn, CHP
> Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility 
> schwahn@jlab.org
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