[Leica] RE: LUG Digest, Vol 31, Issue 221

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Adam Bridge enlightened us:
>When Uranium is fissioned two different elements are created and each
> of these elements is unstable (usually quite seriously unstable) and
> so they decay into different nuclides by various mechanisms, all of
> which give off serious amounts of gamma radiation. The half-lives of
> these fission products vary but the entire chain takes tens of
> thousands of years to reach low-level proportions.<<<

Hi Adam,
Thank you, a very interesting presentation. It's information of this nature 
from someone who knows how to explain it that helps make the LUG the 
wonderful place it is. Even on the odd day we might bark at each other.:-)

Thanks again mon ami,
ted