1994-08-24 - Re: Nuclear Weapons Material

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From: khijol!erc@apple.com (Ed Carp [Sysadmin])
To: ghio@chaos.bsu.edu (Matthew Ghio)
Message Hash: e13b197634876a3d4184b23c9ca74e7bc65d461300ebfeb86fc9da4d7d3dfbe2
Message ID: <m0qd7XS-0004EcC@khijol.uucp>
Reply To: <199408231658.LAA11167@chaos.bsu.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1994-08-24 02:18:26 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 19:18:26 PDT

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From: khijol!erc@apple.com (Ed Carp [Sysadmin])
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 19:18:26 PDT
To: ghio@chaos.bsu.edu (Matthew Ghio)
Subject: Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
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> Polonium is primarilly an alpha emitter.  It would work as part of a
> neutron source, but it is not a particularily good choice because its
> half-life is only 138.4 days (polonium-210).  This makes it expensive
> to obtain, and impractical to store.

They used to use polonium in static eliminators in darkrooms - don't know 
if they use them anymore, though.
-- 
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• 1994-08-23 (Tue, 23 Aug 94 09:56:40 PDT) - Re: Nuclear Weapons Material - Matthew Ghio <ghio@chaos.bsu.edu>
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  • 1994-08-24 (Tue, 23 Aug 94 19:18:26 PDT) - Re: Nuclear Weapons Material - khijol!erc@apple.com (Ed Carp [Sysadmin])