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The Fukushima 2011 Disaster
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The Fukushima 2011 Disaster

by Ronald Eisler
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
152 pages
4h 8m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from The Fukushima 2011 Disaster
Glossary
(modifi ed from Eisler 1994, 2007
a
and Wikipedia 2011
b
)
Actinides. Elements of atomic numbers 89 to 103: actinium, thorium,
protactinium, uranium, neptunium, americium, curium, berkelium,
californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium,
lawrencium (Ac, Th, Pa, U, Np, Am, Cm, Bk, Cf, Es, Fm, Md, No, Lw).
Activity. The activity of a radioactive material is the number of
nuclear disintegrations per unit time. Up to 1977, the accepted unit
of activity was the curie (Ci), equivalent to 37 billion disintegrations/
second (d/s)—a number that approximated the activity of 1 gram of
radium-226. The present unit of activity is the becquer ...
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