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On 18/02/2013 23:12, Andy Champ wrote:
On 18/02/2013 22:44, John Rumm wrote:

Do you have a reference, I could not find iodine in any of the Uranium
decay chains I looked at - perhaps I am missing one?


It's not in the decay chain. But if you hit U235 with a neutron it can
be one of the fission products.


Yup that seems to be the ticket - a result of irradiation rather than
natural decay.


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