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- From: tony2@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (gozdz,antoni s)
- Subject: Re: Technetium
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:57:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.125738.7713@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <C16nA6.632@world.std.com> moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
- >staff@rabbit.augs.se (Staffan Friberg) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1993Jan19.005230.19534@husc15.harvard.edu> blom@husc15.harvard.edu writes:
- >
- >>> It's not, very. The iron shields it to a great extent and the fact that it is
- >>> in a few ppm means that, used sparingly, Tc-steel would not contribute very
- >>> much radiation to the background. You must remember that not long ago in our
- >>> evolution, the background radiation was much higher. We can tolerate some
- >>> radioactivity. Also, please note that radioactivity is almost harmless until
- >>> it enters the body. It is only then that it becomes lethal.
- >
- >>Yes, but it wouldn't matter, would it? The half-life for Tc is something like
- >>six hours.
- >
- >It has one or two isotopes with half-lives around 100 million years (or
- >was it 10 million years?) Regardless, long enough to be useful.
- >
- >-Mike
-
- Close! t/2 values for Tc-97, Tc-98, and Tc-99, the
- three most stable Tc isotopes (out of at least 31
- known), are 2.6x10^6, 4.2x10^6, and 2.1x10^5 years.
- They decay by the electron capture, beta-, and beta-
- modes, resp. (CRC Handbook of Chem. & Phys. 1992, 12-52).
-
- Tony Gozdz
- tony2@cc.bellcore.com
-