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Sadiya coovadia, laura dalimonte, bonnie bristow, elaine curle, leslie gibson, lisa di prospero. This presentation is intended to inform you of the dangers of radioactivity. Selecting this option will search all publications across the scitation platform selecting this option will search all publications for the publishersociety in context. Nureg 5512 v4 comparison of the models and assumptions used in the dandd 1. The second isotope commonly called deuterium has a mass number of 2, an atomic number of 1 and is identified as. These include studying the structure of the deuteron at large momentum transfer, using photoreactions to study the transition between nucleon and quark degrees of freedom, examing the drellhearngerasimov sum rule, which relates a static property, the anomalous magnetic moment, to a. The following health physics society fact sheets are available as portable document format pdf files. The authors and the publisher of this work have checked with sources believed.
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