Report: Swiss scientists find at least 18 times normal levels of Polonium in Arafat's Bones

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59. Color me skeptical - it's been 23 Po-210 half-lives since he died. Puts the numbers off the charts.

Give or take, I'm rounding down one because the analysis probably wasn't done on the 5th. At any rate, 23 half lives will reduce the amount of Po-210 by a factor of...8388608. Which means if the level is still 18 times higher than normal, at the time of his death it would have been 150,994,944 times normal. 100x the dose that killed Litvinenko. Now, I'm not saying any of that is impossible by any means, but that massive a dose is entirely inconsistent with his symptoms. He'd have gone from healthy to dead in hours at best, not lingered on for weeks.

(Yes, they could be measuring Pb-206 levels, but I didn't see that in any articles.)