Re: FW: News Media and How to Deceive

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 12:13 11.08.1998 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Those Brazils nuts (500 Bq/kg) again: Does anyone
>
>know the approximate composition of radioactive isotopes?
>
>In particular if any alpha emitters worth mentioning
>
>are there.
>
>-----------------------------------------------

Sorry, I do not keep numbers in mind and it took me a long time to learn to
remember my own new telephone number...., but I can tell you that the
Brazil nuts are therefore "(in)famous", because they contain elevated
levels of Ra-226. I do not remember, how much it was, but I think it "very
unlikely" that it would be 500 Bq/kg. Maybe some people count the tritium
and C-14?

Franz


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