Storm dates were determined by matching key markers in the sediment samples with known events; rye pollen started to appear after Europeans colonized the region, for example, and exotic
caesium isotopes settled in the pond following nuclear weapons tests.
Radioactive
caesium isotopes are being removed from the water by an advanced liquid - processing system built after the accident, but a facility for removing strontium isotopes is not yet ready.
Not exact matches
This is fissile, and splits into lighter fragments, including
isotopes such as
caesium - 137, with a half - life of 30 years, and strontium - 90, with a 25 - year half - life.
«Leakage is occurring and
isotopes such as
caesium - 137 accumulate in the food chain.»
Opponents of the tests have warned that potentially harmful radioisotopes, especially
caesium - 137, strontium - 90 and plutonium
isotopes, will leach from rocks fractured by the blasts.
Most atomic clocks use atoms of the
isotope caesium - 133.