As a health physicist, you are being consulted about a spill in a radiochemistry lab. The isotope

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As a health physicist, you are being consulted about a spill in a radiochemistry lab. The isotope spilled was 500µCi of 131Ba, which has a half-life of 12 days.
(a) What mass of 131Ba was spilled?
(b) Your recommendation is to clear the lab until the radiation level has fallen 1.00µCi. How long will the lab have to be closed?
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Operations and Supply Chain Management

ISBN: 978-0078024023

14th edition

Authors: F. Robert Jacobs, Richard Chase

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