Sentences with phrase «for radioactive cesium»

In 2011 we tested 15 Pacific bluefin tuna, known migrants from Japan, for radioactive cesium from Fukushima.

Not exact matches

But Moniz has said it could be ideal for some kinds of waste, particularly 1936 slender, half - meter - long tubes of highly radioactive cesium - 137 and strontium - 90.

And that means there may be two direct paths for radioactive particle byproducts of nuclear fission, such as cesium 137 and iodine 131, to escape and spread radiation — cracks in containment as well as the spent fuel pools now open to the air.

Fourteen months later, reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl exploded and burned for 40 days, spreading radioactive fallout across the entire Northern Hemisphere, depositing cesium - 137 in Minnesota's milk [1] and Japan's topsoil.