Radiation seed therapy is a common method for treating some prostate cancers and brain tumors. Cesium-131, which decays by electron capture and gamma ray emission with a half-life of 9.69 days, is a new isotope proposed for such treatment. If a tumor were seeded with 1.00 g of cesium-131 (130.91 g/mol) , what would the initial radioactivity level be? Note: 1 Ci = 3.70 1010/s.
A) 5.84 mCi
B) 78.3 mCi
C) 103 mCi
D) 254 mCi
E) 39.4 mCi
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