Sentences with phrase «especially caesium»

Swept along by winds and settled by heavy rains, radioactive particles, especially caesium - 137 (137Cs), polluted large stretches of the European continent.

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.

Not exact matches

The Chernobyl accident emitted much more radioactivity and a wider diversity of radioactive elements than Fukushima Daiichi has so far, but it was iodine and caesium that caused most of the health risk — especially outside the immediate area of the Chernobyl plant, says Malcolm Crick, secretary of a United Nations body that has just reviewed the health effects of Chernobyl.