Complications of cholecystitis and/or biliary colic may also include cholangitis, sepsis, pancreatitis, hepatitis, and choledocholithiasis (10%). In addition, Gallbladder perforation occurs in 10% of patients with cholecystitis. When perforation is localized, it may be seen as pericholecystic fluid by ultrasonography.
Half-life is defined as the time it takes for one half of a radioactive element to decay into a daughter isotope. As radioactive isotopes of elements decay, they lose their radio activity and become a brand new element known as a daughter isotope.
Numerically, about 5% of the waste elements made from splitting U-235 and Pu-239 have half lives less than one day. Another 75% of the radioactive elements we find in high level nuclear waste have half lives between one day and five years.