half life and nuclear reactors

Gene Thompson (gthompso@ccsf.cc.ca.us)
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:47:15 -0700 (PDT)


Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:47:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gene Thompson <gthompso@ccsf.cc.ca.us>
To: Pinhole Listserv <pinhole@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: half life and nuclear reactors
In-Reply-To: <970925195422_-962234597@emout07.mail.aol.com>

Really, this isn't connected to the Cassini qestion at all but come up
from some work my Physical Science students are doing. The spent fuel
rods in a reactor core (or aken from a reactor core) contain which
isotopes and what are the half lives of those isotopes? Which isotopes
rained down on the world after Chernobyl and what are their half lives?

Ellen oivist0o
George Washington High School
gthompso@ccsf.cc.ca.us