As a health physicist, you are being consulted about a spill in a radiochemistry lab. The isotope spilled was 400 µCi of barium-131, which has a half-life of 12 days. (a) What mass of this radioisotope was spilled? (b) Your recommendation is to clear the lab until the radiation level has fallen 1 µCi. How long will the lab have to be closed?

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