Its alpha activity was about 10,500 curies and the beta/gamma activity about 560,000 curies.
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The radioactivity of wastes held prior to treatment and disposal amounts to some 550 mega curies.
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Five curies out of the 26 were contained in a single delivery of tritiated water.
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It is believed to hold a radioactive iridium-192 source, of activity 8 curies in 1980.
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Alpha emitters will drop from 5,000 curies a year in 1973 to 20 a year by 1991.
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The total alpha radioactivity in the waste at the time of dumping was 8,279 curies and the beta-gamma radioactivity 578,845 curies.
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Three curies, consisting of 220 consignments (138 to hospitals), had a half-life of less than a fortnight.
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What is the radioactive source, and what is its strength in curies?
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The current build-up of americum-241 from the 1978 discharge is about 100 curies.
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These 26 curies were accounted for by no fewer than 969 deliveries to 134 different places, and these were made up as follows.
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After about 100 years, the 1978 discharges of this isotope will have decayed to about 1,400 curies of americum-241.
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Such terms as sieverts and curies mean little to him.
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It means that it has a millionth of the amount of radiation that it would have if it was acurie.
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It is estimated that about one third of this had decayed to give some 5,560 curies of americium 241 by the end of 1982, the rest remaining as plutonium 241.
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Seven curies consisting of 310 consignments (276 to hospitals), were of the isotope iodine 131, which has a half-life of eight days and is very short-lived.
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