Date: Tue Dec 19 13:33:26 2000
Posted By: William Lorenzen, Staff, Radiation Safety, Children's Hospital
Area of science: Earth Sciences
ID: 975909694.Es
Message:
Polonium is created by the decay of longer lived parent uranium. It may
have a short half-life but it is constantly being generated by the longer
lived parent.
Here is a link of radiation training slides that might help in
understanding this issue
http://moon.ouhsc.edu/lcarter1/nuctransch2/sld012.htm
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