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As someone said below, this incident took place 2 weeks ago in a non-nuclear part. And half-life of iodine-131 is 8 days.
by en 10y ago
As someone said below, this incident took place 2 weeks ago in a non-nuclear part. And half-life of iodine-131 is 8 days.
- pvaldes 10y agoWhat happens with the other half?
- exabrial 10y ago::the noise one's head makes when hitting the desk::
- throwanem 10y agoIt continues to decay; the active fraction is the reciprocal of 2^n in the number of elapsed half-lives.
- pvaldes 10y agoThus, then you could be seen the remain survivor Iodine released from an earlier episode, that for some reason went unnoticed (or undisclosed) before. You could expect to have 25% still at 16 days (I said expect because this is a game of probabilities still).
- throwanem 10y agoTrue, but if it's been detected at this level of activity, why wouldn't it have been detected before now at a higher level of activity than this? There are privately operated and often networked sensors all over Europe.
- pvaldes 10y agoExact. This is the right question here. Maybe we do not have sensors in the right places that could detect them. I'll suggest to place some sensors in regular airlines and see what happens for example.
- kpil 10y agoXenon, mostly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_iodine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_iodine