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My career - the IRE

would help to fix the problem. If the problem was more
complex, the engineer on duty would be called in to help.
The aim was to finish production on time, without fail.

It's nice to know that there's not much you can do on your
own in this type of environment, which requires highly
specialised skills in a variety of high-tech fields. In
practice, helping each other is the only way out. It's two
o'clock in the morning, you call the engineer on duty to get
some information, he doesn't listen to the end of the 2nd
sentence and tells you "I'm on my way". The day he calls
you, you too will say "I'm on my way".
This is the true value of the statement:

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Alone we go faster, together we go further !

The production of radioelements is not a conventional

production process (milk cans, beer cans, steel cans, toys, etc.).
A radioactive material has a half-life (T) which
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characterizes its decay rate. The product, by emitting α
(alpha) or β (beta) particles, disappears by transforming into
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another product.

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77 (T): The half-life of a radioactive product represents the time required for half
of the basic product to transform into another product.
It is a process well known by its effects, but we do not know the mechanism
that triggers it. This discovery would take science a very big step.
Uranium-238 (natural), by successive transformations, becomes lead-206
(Stable). Why?
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