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Re:Uranium Contaminates Water Across California's Central Va... by khuey on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:05PM (#20796768)
Radium is ~500000x as radioactive as uranium.
Re:Uranium Contaminates Water Across California's Central Va... by whateveryou381 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:21PM (#20796817)
Half-life is longer for uranium, but I would say they are just as radioactive, as they are in secular equilibrium and apart of the same decay chain [1]. They are just as "radioactive" in this configuration, as they go through the same number of decays. Their concentrations can change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain#/media/File:Decay_...

Re:Uranium Contaminates Water Across California's Central Va... by erik_seaberg on Sunday August 25, 2019 @10:20PM (#20796998)
SI measures radiation in decay events per second. The rate is important because we mostly worry about decay product exposure during our lifetimes, or maybe how long a mass must be contained until it stops being an acute risk to our species, rather than the grand total of decay over astronomical time scales.